For Autumn-Winter 2019, Virgil Abloh, Artistic Director of the Louis Vuitton Men's Collections, takes us to the incandescent streets of New York with a combination of design and street art. A blend of colours contrasts brightly against the black background of the accessories.

Chopard and film-making are engaged in an ageless love story built on powerful emotions. In 1998, at the initiative of Chopard Co-President and Creative Director Caroline Scheufele, the Maison became Official Partner to the Cannes International Film Festival.

After four days of competitions held by Lake Leman, in the Place Bellerive, the first Swiss stage of the Longines Masters concluded on Sunday with the Longines Grand Prix of Lausanne, which brought together several of the sport’s biggest names.

At the 2019 SIHH you launched the concept of selling Submersibles packaged with experiences with your ambassadors. You’ve just announced a new Panerai ambassador. How do you choose them?
They all have a connection with the brand, beyond the fact of being a Panerai ambassador.

HIGH FIDELITY

For El Primero’s 50 year anniversary, Zenith is celebrating with a trio of chronographs crafted from precious metals. They have all stood the test of time: a half century!

When Victor Vescovo successfully piloted his deep submergence vehicle DSV Limiting Factor to the bottom of the Mariana Trench earlier this year, the 10,928m dive set a new world record and prompted loud applause from Omega’s project team.

In 2016, Bovet 1822 unveiled the Shooting Star tourbillon, the first timepiece in an exclusive collection dedicated to astronomy. The Astérium and Grand Récital tourbillons then followed in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

Until now within the Blancpain's Villeret line, the GMT complication has been associated with complex calendars. This year however, Blancpain wished to shine a spotlight on this function by dedicating a new timepiece to it, the Villeret GMT Date model.

At a time when watchmakers are relentlessly pursuing a goal of absolute precision and revolutionary performance, HYT prefers to follow its own path. The brand has its own idiosyncratic vision of time, and its watches are designed around the concept of restoring time.

The competition opened on Friday 21 June and will end on Saturday 21 September. The summer of 2019 looks set to be hotter than previous years for WorldTempus readers, and it’s not just because of climate change.