CORUM – GRAND PRECIS, AN AUTHENTIC VINTAGE

For the current floral themed exhibition of Vacheron Constantin’s private collection in Geneva, TheWATCHES.tv has interviewed Jérôme Meier, expert watchmaker at Vacheron Constantin. He gives us further insight into the 50 timepieces ranging from 1780 through the 1930′s displayed until December 2012.

In the context of serious redefinition of distribution networks of the watch industry, Luc Perramond, CEO of La Montre Hermès, tells us the strategy behind Hermes’ new boutique concept dedicated to watches, boutiques mainly found for the time being in Asia.

Find out more info in this video report with Elizabeth Doerr about the new facility that will hold Baselworld starting April 24th 2013. This new building was created by the famous Basel based architects Hezog & de Meuron, interview with Pierre de Meuron.

Find out the Top 5 selection of Michael Clerizo, author and journalist for the Wall Street Journal, at this latest Baselworld 2013…

We all know multi-function watches, but what about watches that you can wear differently! Here is a great example with the Parmigiani Fleurier Transforma collection, a watch that you can wear as a wrist watch or as a pocket watch by simply pressing a little button. Find our more in this video report.

In this new program, we bring you a closer view to products we like. In this case two iconic watches by Vulcain; the 50s Presidents’ Watch in a pink gold case finish and automatic mouvement and the limited edition of the Nautical Heritage.

Jaquet Droz commissioned Jean-Christophe Nothias, author, for an original and audacious project. For the first time we will discover the life of one the key watchmakers of his time, Pierre Jaquet Droz, not on an historical and factual basis, but as a real novel. The idea is to find out who was this ingenious man, his travels and encounters in the middle of the “Enlightenment Ages”, his family and legacy, instead of a historical description of what he achieved.