Today, Carmelo Anthony selected the Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon Chronograph by Audemars Piguet as The Haute Time Watch of the Day. From The Audemars Piguet Classic Collection, comes this beautiful 47mm square, Titanium piece, accented with an 18k white gold crown, bezel, pushpieces and caseback. Equipped with a Calibre 2874 Manufacture hand-wound movement. This model’s functions include a minute repeater […]

The Grand Lange 1 “Lumen” by A. Lange & Söhne is Carmelo Anthony’s selection for Haute Time’s Watch of the Day. As part of a Limited edition collection of 200 pieces, this model is featured in platinum. The case measures 40.9 mm and houses a Lange Manufacture Caliber L095.2 movement with a 72-hour power reserve. […]

Today, Carmelo Anthony selected The IWC Ingenieur Constant Force Tourbillon as The Haute Time Watch of the Day. IWC uses a patented constant-force mechanism integrated into the tourbillon to guarantee the utmost precision in this model, receiving inspiration from a sports car engine block. The Ingenieur Constant Force Tourbillon features a 46mm platinum and ceramic […]

Although it’s in retrospect one of the most logical uses for the Reverso, the first dual time-zone version came rather late in the day –though the Reverso has been around since 1931 (when, famously, it was produced at the request of a British officer’s polo club in India, in order to create a watch whose […]

The Rotonde de Cartier Mysterious Double Tourbillon has been selected as Carmelo Anthony’s Haute Time Watch of the Day. This impressive piece by Cartier was introduced at SIHH 2013 and features a Platinum 45mm case with a beaded platinum crown set with a beautiful sapphire cabochon. The Rotonde de Cartier Mysterious Double Tourbillon is equipped […]

One of the big attractions for SIHH was Vacheron Constantin. I was a fan of the pieces I saw there, as I thought they had some very unique items. Speaking to a couple of top dealers for Vacheron Constantin, they were very happy and excited, as they felt they had some special pieces to show […]

A brand I was excited to see at SIHH was Van Cleef & Arpels. I am familiar with a couple of the pieces but to be honest, it was great to sit down with the team, and get an in-depth overview of their watches, ranging from the Midnight Tourbillon to the Charms Mini-Watch.     […]

Luxury watchmakers Piaget set female hearts aflutter when they unveiled their Limelight Gala collection at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie last month. The new collection, presented in Geneva, Switzerland, was inspired by the fanciful aesthetics of the 1960s, with a signature swirl of brilliant cut diamonds around the case. A rounded case is sublimated by […]

Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day selected by Carmelo Anthony is the Ballerine Enchantée by Van Cleef & Arpels. This enchanting timepiece released as part of the 2013 “Poetic Complication” collection was inspired by a quote by Anna Pavlova, “I’ve been dreaming that I was a ballerina, and that I was spending my whole […]

I was very excited to get an inside look at the pieces launched at SIHH this year by IWC. Their booth is very cool, as this year of the Ingenieur watches. The latest collection is with the new partnership between the Schaffhausen watchmaker and the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team. So, when you walked […]

  The biggest news at Ralph Lauren this year was the brand’s first tourbillon – a mere four years after the watch brand was launched. The RL 67 Safari Tourbillon, with a movement made by niche fabricator La Fabrique du Temps, is a great looking watch. The Safari’s trademark aesthetic, a combination of sporty (gun-metal […]

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grand Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee has been selected by Carmelo Anthony as Today’s Haute Time Watch of the Day. This Grand Complication takes its inspiration from the appearance of 19th century pocket watches. This is the first Grand Complication by Jaeger-LeCoultre to use the Flying Gyrotourbillon which appears to be floating weightlessly […]

Founded in 1830, Baume & Mercier is the seventh-oldest Swiss watch brand, and thus has a long heritage to tap into for inspiration. The new men’s collection, Clifton, is closely inspired by a model from the 1950s – right down to the unique numeral font on its minimalist dial. The Clifton is also uniquely representative […]

Boutique brand Parmigiani Fleurier’s watches may get less hype than some of the giant SIHH brands, but they do not take a back seat in terms of watchmaking innovation and sheer beauty of finish. Take the Toric Quaestor Labyrinthe, a minute repeater with a dial designed as a tribute to the maze-like pattern of Greek […]

Cartier, the brand with all the buzz this year, made a virtuoso display of watchmaking prowess at the 2013 SIHH. The brand introduced no less than 110 new models, including 40 high jewelry pieces, eight models in its Metiers d’art collection and five (five!) new in-house movements. The most important of these is the 1904-CH […]

Roger Dubuis and Haute Time Managing Editor Seth Semilof One of the exciting booths of SIHH, had to go to Roger Dubuis. They were the talk of the show, as they had an eagle on guard for four hours a day, getting the brand a lot of attention. As I had an appointment to interview […]