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...
February 1, 2012 - At SIHH, Stephen Forsey sat down with Roberta Naas of International Watch and A Timely Perspective to talk about his firm’s major novelty for 2012, the GMT, as well as “Le Garde Temps, la Naissance d’une Montre,” an organization he has created along with his partner, Robert Greubel, and fell...
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 ...
January 16, 2012 - In November, Elizabeth Doerr visited Jaeger-LeCoultre’s sprawling manufacture in Le Sentier, Switzerland, while on assignment for International Watch. While touring a complications workshop tucked within the factory, Elizabeth took this video of what will without question be one of this year’s m...
