As the official timer to the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 this summer, Omega launches a celebratory watch, the Speedmaster Chronoscope Paris 2024, with a vintage 1940s ‘snail’ dial design that displays a tachymeter scale, a pulsometer scale and a telemeter scale.
The new Omega Speedmaster Chronoscope Paris 2024
With its white opaline dial and black, grey and gold accents, the watch oozes retro appeal while also hosting a full slate of modern technical updates within its contemporary 43mm case.
The watch is also available with a Moonshine Gold case and bracelet and a ceramic bezel.
The updated size fits a technically astute Omega Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 9908 / 9909, certified by METAS, which marks it as meeting high Swiss standards of precision, performance, and magnetic resistance.
Omega is offering the new watch in four models. These include a version in full stainless steel with an anodized aluminum bezel and one cased in Omega’s own gold 18-karat yellow gold alloy known as Moonshine Gold with a ceramic bezel.
The steel model is also sold on a leather strap while the gold model is available on gold bracelet or a leather strap.
Each dial offers blackened sub-dials, Arabic numerals in Moonshine Gold and leaf-shaped, gold-coated hands and subdial hands.
On the back, Omega adds a commemorative design featuring a stamped medallion on a frosted base that displays a mirror-polished Paris 2024 logo and the words, “Paris 2024” and the Olympic rings.
Prices: $9,500 (steel with aluminum bezel on leather) to $51,400 (Moonshine gold case, ceramic bezel and gold bracelet).
Madison Avenue watch boutiques welcome watch collectors, connoisseurs and the curious during the 10th Annual Madison Avenue Watch Week, which starts April 30 and runs through May 4.
Visitors can stroll the avenue to see the newest timepieces and can participate in educational sessions, watchmaking workshops and dynamic discussions around the most important topics in the watch world today.
Jaeger-LeCoutre Watch Workshop at the watchmaker’s Madison Avenue boutique.
The 10th Annual Madison Avenue Watch Week is organized by the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District, its leading watch brands and boutiques, and for the first time, in partnership with the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH). The event is also held in association with the Horological Society of New York and RedBar.
The public is invited to experience the new and iconic timepieces in special viewings at the twelve participating watch stores located on Madison Avenue between East 57th and East 75th Streets.
The Week kicks-off with celebratory opening night receptions on Tuesday, April 30 from 6 to 8pm. A spirited panel discussion will take place on Thursday, May 2 at 9am, when industry experts will review the most exciting launches from Watches and Wonders Geneva, explore how vintage watches of the past are inspiring today’s designs, and share their insights on what the future holds for collectors and connoisseurs. That will be followed by the annual Madison Avenue Watch Week Walk – a stroll up the Avenue to visit participating boutiques with the experts to experience the novelties first-hand.
A. Lange & Söhne will provide the opportunity to learn about the history of the brand while experiencing the craftsmanship through a live demonstration on one of its in-house movements and a dialog with one of our own watchmakers flown in from Glashütte, Germany. By appointment only.
Apple will curate your own Today at Apple Watch session. Learn ways to personalize and utilize for your business. By appointment.
Breitling Boutique celebrates the 140th anniversary a special vintage collection of watches that highlight Breitling’s innovation since 1884.
The Breitling Superocean Heritage 57 Highlands.
Buccellati will share its extraordinary timepiece history and present a special showing in its gallery setting.
Davide Cenci will host an “Off The Cuff” fashion showing moderated by Michael Macko pairing men’s fashion with a curated collection of vintage watches presented by Element iN Time NYC.
Element iN Time NYC will display its vast collection of vintage and modern timepieces from assorted Swiss manufactures. Book an appointment to view to a private collection of Clocks and Watches and meet the collector, a former UN Diplomat who has been hunting them worldwide for 50 years. By appointment only.
IWC Portugieser Chronograph Obsidian
IWC Schaffhausen will present a panel discussion: How a Watch Stays Eternally Relevant, for an exploration of the IWC Portugieser and how it has remained an icon for 85 years – and private, small group product presentations of the newest timepieces just unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre Chronograph Moon.
Jaeger-LeCoultre offers a series ofWatchmaking Masterclasses led by an expert watchmaker. Participants will actively practice skills of traditional watchmaking with the opportunity to bring a timepiece to life by assembling a mechanical movement. Reservation required.
Montblanc celebrates the beginning of Madison Avenue Watch Week and invites watch connoisseurs to discover its curated collection of 2024 Watch Novelties by private appointment with a Montblanc watch specialist.
Ralph Lauren will have on view a specially curated timepiece collection for Madison Avenue Watch Week.
The 1916 Company presents exclusive F.P. Journe and De Bethune Watches & Wonders Open House Exhibitions as well as F.P. Journe and Bethune Education Sessions with Jack Forster, George Mayer and Tim Mosso.
To celebrate two decades as the Official Timekeeper of the NTT Indycar Series, TAG Heuer launches a new Formula 1 Chronograph Indy 500 Special Edition watch.
The new TAG Heuer Formula 1 Chronograph Indy 500 Special Edition watch.
The 43mm quartz-powered chronograph, which launches ahead of the 108th Indianapolis 500 on May 26, echoes previous special editions from TAG Heuer with its racing-red accents and prominent Indianapolis Speedway logo.
TAG Heuer teamed with the Indycar design team when considering which race references to include in the watch. As a result, you’ll see “Indy 500” displayed on the ceramic bezel, positioned on the tachymeter scale.
In addition, TAG Heuer has engraved the Indy 500 logo and ‘special edition’ mention on the back. Also note the asphalt-like black and red detail on the dial.
As a reference to heritage, the new TAG Heuer Formula 1 Chronograph watch details #11 in the indexes, which underscores the year of the first race in 1911 as well as the beginning of the TAG Heuer partnership in 2011.
The red numeral at 11 o’clock depicts the birth of the race in 1911 and the beginning of the TAG Heuer partnership 100 years later.
The chronograph’s three sub-dials feature a permanent second indicator at 3 o’clock, a minute chronograph counter embellished with the Indianapolis Speedway logo at 6 o’clock, and the hour chronograph counter at 9 o’clock.
As a racing-inspired watch, the TAG Heuer Formula 1 Chronograph is fit with a steel bracelet and folding clasp with a double safety system and pilot extension. This allows the watch to be worn over a racing suit.
At this year’s Indy 500 race, look for the new watch on the wrist of of TAG Heuer ambassador and Indycar driver Alexander Rossi.
Price: $2,400.
Specifications: TAG Heuer Formula 1 Chronograph x Indy 500
MB&F returns to the race track with a new automtive-themed hue for its HM8 Mark 2, the compact version of the MB&F HM8.
The newest MB&F HM8 Mark 2 features a metallic blue body.
You might recall that the HM8 Mark 2 combines the supercar styling of the watchmaker’s HM5 with the driving watch display and open ‘hood’ of the MB&F HM8 from 2016. Its horizontal time display, inspired by a 1976 design from Amida Digitrend, is optically magnified and projected 90 degrees to the wearer via a series of sapphire prisms.
Launched last year in white or green options, the HM8 Mark 2 collection now includes this model with a glossy sapphire blue case, available as limited edition of thirty-three pieces. MB&F explains that with similar metallic pigments and a translucid material, the blue body panels on the new model recall the sheen on luxurious car paints.
While the initial HM8 models were built with titanium and gold, the newer HM8 Mark 2 is built from titanium topped with CarbonMacrolon, a composite material composed of a polymer matrix injected with carbon nanotubes.
The material, developed for MB&F, is eight times lighter than steel and can be colored, polished, bead-blasted, lacquered or satin-finished. MB&F creates amore unisex appeal with the watch, taking full advantage of the new material to create a lighter, smaller and more brightly colored driving watch.
When it debuted last year, the first HM8 Mark 2 models also debuteda new type of crown for MB&F. The crown’s ‘double de-clutch’ system works by pushing the crown in and turning it three-quarters of a turn to release it. This saves space and creates a tighter seal for the crown itself.
Price: $78,000.
Specifications: MB&F HM8 Mark 2
The MB&F HM8 Mark 2 is available:
– in titanium and green CarbonMacrolon body panels limited to 33 pieces;
– in titanium and white CarbonMacrolon body panels;
– in titanium and blue CarbonMacrolon body panels limited to 33 pieces.
Movement:
Three-dimensional horological engine, composed of a jumping hour and trailing minutes module developed in-house by MB&F, powered by a Girard-Perregaux base movement.
Mechanical movement, automatic winding
22-karat gold automatic winding rotor
Power reserve: 42 hours
Balance frequency: 28,800bph/4Hz.
Number of components: 247 components
Number of jewels: 30 jewels
Functions/indications:
Bi-directional jumping hours and trailing minutes, displayed by dual reflective sapphire crystal prisms with integrated magnifying lens.
Case: Grade 5 titanium with green, white or blue CarbonMacrolon
Dimensions: 47mm x 41.5mm x 19 mm
Number of components: 42, Water resistance: 30 meters
Sapphire crystals: Sapphire crystals on top, front and display back treated with anti-reflective coating on both faces. Dual reflective sapphire crystal prisms with integrated magnifying lens.
Strap & Buckle: Calfskin strap – white for the British green and sapphire blue models and green for the white model with a titanium tang buckle.
Among the eleven new watches debuted by Patek Philippe during Watches and Wonders, one debut in particular stands out for its technical advancement while others enliven existing collections with new colors, new casual (denim) straps, new case metals or, for one highlight, a sleek new bracelet.
New Patek Philippe World Time Reference Ref. 5330G-001.
World Timer localizes
The newest Patek Philippe World Time model joins the full collection after initially debuting as a limited edition last year during the Patek Philippe Grand Exhibition Watch Art Tokyo 2023.
The watch, Ref. 5330G-001, now displays a date display synchronized with local time, which is a patented world-first and a notably useful travel function.
Patek Philippe watchmakers have added a specialized differential system to the watch’s automatic movement. The resulting change means the local date will appear along the edge of the dial, indicated with a transparent glass hand (a first for Patek Philippe) with a red tip.
In this illustration, note that the new Patek Philippe Caliber 240 HU C features a patented central differential system comprising two concentric star-type gear wheels to manage the local-time date.
The local time is the time zone selected at 12 o’clock and indicated by the center hands.
With its 40mm white gold case and handsome blue-grey opaline dial (with a block-pattern carbon center), the dressy model allows the wearer to simply press the pusher at 10 o’clock to move the move the local time zone indicated on the watch in one-hour increments.
With this simple gesture, the traveller can both see the local time while also noting the time differences globally, as seen on the multi-city dial indicator.
Patek Philippe displayed the new World Time Reference Ref. 5330G-001 with a new denim weave strap, a casual bracelet also seen on other debuts. Price: $76,594.
The newest Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse
Golden Ellipse bracelet
Another head-turner at the Patek Philippe exhibition in Geneva was the supple new gold chain bracelet attached to the always elegant Golden Ellipse, Reference 5738/1R.
While often attached to various precious metal bracelets since its debut in 1968, the Golden Ellipse has in recent years been primarily a leather strap model, in part due to the difficulty in sizing the bracelet at the point of sale.
Patek Philippe explains that the new bracelet is the result of fifteen years of work. It is made of 18-karat hand-polished rose gold with a new, patented construction made of 363 parts, including more than 300 links, assembled manually.
The new clasp (above), with its engraved cover, offers a choice of three adjustment notches.
The bracelet debuts attached to a new rose gold edition of the 34.5mm-by-39.5mm fashion icon. For the debut Patek Philippe created a new sunburst ebony black dial with applied baton-type hour-markers and thin rose-gold hands.
Inside, Patek Philippe fits its celebrated self-winding caliber 240, an ultra-thin movement with off-center 22-karat gold mini-rotor. The movement’s thin profile means the Golden Ellipse Reference 5738 is now the slimmest watch in the Patek Philippe regular collection. Price: $60,097.
Other 2024 Patek Philippe debuts include:
A new dial on the Twenty~4 Reference 4910/1201R-010 ($47,607, pictured above) now displays eye-catching concentric waves coated with dozens of layers of translucent lacquer.
The new Patek Philippe Nautilus Flyback Chronograph, Reference 5980/60G-001.
A new edition of the Patek Philippe Nautilus Flyback Chronograph. The newest,Reference 5980/60G-001 ($78,951), revisits the hot sports model in white gold with a blue-gray opaline dial. Patek Philippe will deliver two matching straps with each watch.
One is a blue-gray calfskin embossed with a denim motif edged with contrasting white hand-stitching (above) and the other is a blue-grey composite in afabric motif.
The new Aquanaut Luce Haute Joaillerie Reference 5268/461G-001 ($235,674, pictured above) gleams in white gold set with diamonds and blue sapphires within snow and baguette settings.
On the rounded octagonal bezel, baguette-cut sapphires gradate from light blue to dark blue. Inside is Caliber 26-330 S, a self-winding movement visible through the sapphire-crystal back.
Also at Watches and Wonders 2024, Patek Philippe announced that for all new Patek Philippe watches sold as of May 1, 2024, the duration of the Patek Philippe warranty increases from two years to five years, counting from the date of purchase.
The steel model is also sold on a leather strap while the gold model is available on gold bracelet or a leather strap.
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