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Marc Guten, Marketing Director of Vacheron Constantin, tells us about the brand’s development and some interesting figures; new boutique presence, new targets and an increase of the workforce to sustain all this.

Since 2009, Blancpain has been involved in motor sport, firstly with the sponsoring of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series where every participants race with the same car, then with the sponsoring of the Blancpain Endurance Series with GT3 cars and this year Blancpain went a bit further with their very own team, the Blancpain Racing Team. Find out more with Marc A. Hayek, President & CEO of the brand, who is also a fierce racing driver of the racing team.

Orchestrated by “Côte Magazine”, 73 shops participated in this second edition. The concept of this event is to discover the vineyards of the region along a path, lined with luxury shops of Rue du Rhone.

And to end this Top 5 program of our coverage of Baselworld 2013, find out the selection of Suzanne Wong, watch journalist for Revolution.

We continue our tour of the 2012 SIHH with Elizabeth Doerr, famous independent watch journalist, and find out her 2 last picks of this Top 5: the Duomètre Spherotourbillon form Jaeger LeCoultre and the Perpetual calendar of A. Lange & Söhne.

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.

Find out the Top 5 selection of Carlos Torres at the 2103 Baselworld…