FLORAL ART EXHIBITION AT VACHERON CONSTANTIN

Stanislas de Quercize, CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels, presents us the latest novelties of the brand at the SIHH 2012. Among them, you will see the extraordinary Poetic Wish, a very original and complex minute repeater, as well as the major relaunch of the Pierre Arpels model.

This watch is explosive! C₃H₅N₃O₉ , or nitroglycerin as it would be known in lay terms, is an “experimental” watch brand, and its first product is called ZR012. In a zirconium case showing off the Wankel-inspired movement to advantage, it is not hard to see that this limited edition of 12 pieces is the result of a joint effort between Urwerk and MB&F. Learn more about it in this video with watch journalist Elizabeth Doerr.

Find out where they stand with the major expansion of the new Baselworld infrastructure; what impact on space allocation, what’s the new logic and who’s is behind the new complex. Interview with Bernard Keller, Communication Director of Baselworld.

Discover the Top 5 of Louis Nardin, Editor-in-Chief of Worldtempus, during the last 2012 Baselworld exhibition: Zenith Pilot Doublematic, Badollet L’Ivresse, Glasshütte Original Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon, Patek Philippe ref. 4968 and Hermès Arceau Parcours d’H.

With a new world record for a Rolex Sea-Dweller reaching almost 0.5 million Swiss Francs and total sales of the 600 lots proposed slightly above CHF 8,6 Million, find out more about the auction that took place on the 11th of November 2012 with Julien Schaerer, Watch Director and auctioneer of Antiquorum. We also talk about the result of a contemporary Audemars Piguet, the Jules Audemars, and why are Swatch watches not performing, even for prototype versions!

TAG Heuer present the world’s first ever mechanical chronograph able to measure and display the 1/1000th of a second.

Find out what it takes to put together an exhibition celebrating such an iconic object as the Royal Oak, a timepiece that goes well beyond being just a legendary watch but a legendary design on its own.