February 21, 2012 - As collectors continue to buy up modern watches with vintage styling cues, one of the major trends this year at SIHH had brands returning to the archives to find inspiration from erstwhile models and designs. This was especially true at Panerai, where the firm revived a few classic dial and case con...
February 16, 2012 - Yesterday, the editors of International Watch met with Guy Semon, Vice President of Sciences and Technology at TAG Heuer, who was in New York to show the press his firm’s new Microgirder 2000 chronograph, unveiled in Geneva last month.
Semon, a former academic, is easily one of the brightest mi...
February 3, 2012 - While we were in Geneva, Girard-Perregaux’s Marketing Director, Xavier Markl, personally presented the highlights from GP’s 2012 novelties to International Watch. The star of the show for GP was its elegant 1966 Minute Repeater. Sized at a sober 42 mm in diameter and bearing a white grand feu en...
January 30, 2012 - Last year, the watch industry mourned the passing of its most famous designer, Gérald Genta. Genta’s illustrious career was in some ways a by-product of the industry he served, a cottage industry in which freelance suppliers and designers spread their talents across several brands. For Genta, the...
January 27, 2012 - On the first day of SIHH, A. Lange & Söhne CEO Wilhelm Schmid very graciously took time to present the highlights of his 2012 novelties for iW readers. This SIHH was indeed a monumental one for A. Lange & Söhne, in which the German firm presented updates to its iconic Lange 1 range in the ...
