Blancpain celebrates Chinese New Year with a limited series of 50 watches dedicated to this tradition and its festivities. The Year of the Metal Ox begins on February 12th 2021 and ends on January 31st 2022.
“We are all about the logo and shape,” says Carlos Rosillo, CEO and one of the founding partners of the ampersand-logoed French watch brand Bell & Ross. Bruno Belamich, the creative part of the French duo as well as co-founder, nods and agrees with his lifelong friend and business partner.
Despite the rain falling in Geneva (Switzerland), a detour to the Czapek boutique in the company of its CEO, Xavier de Roquemaurel, brightened things up considerably. WorldTempus was given the opportunity to admire the latest creations from the Geneva brand, hot from the oven and fresh in the shop, having arrived that very morning.
Andy Warhol wasn’t the kind to allow convention to dictate his style. He wore a Piaget watch with a hardstone dial regardless of the implications society might attach to lapis lazuli or malachite.
New two-tone variations are enhancing one of the leading Longines collections, the HydroConquest line. These timepieces are true sports watch references inspired by the world of diving, combining performance with style.
In 1994, Aletta and Peter Stas were obsessed by one idea. In their view, there were only two kinds of watch on sale: superb but unaffordable timepieces and shoddily-made models. And so they dreamed of producing watches that were innovative, high-quality – and reasonably-priced.
Los Angeles, Singapore, Dubai, London, Paris, Geneva… all around the world, the response to The Millennium Watch Book has been unanimously enthusiastic. The book’s size and weight alone are impressive enough, but most of all it’s the wealth and diversity of content that has readers reaching for their keyboards.
It's the biggest, baddest and most drooled-after partnership with an automotive brand. Not just any brand. This is the world leader of sports cars we're talking about, a massive reference on highways, racetracks, rallyes, all championships included (except Formula 1).