IWC RED CARPET MOMENT AT THE SIHH 2012

Interview with Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, watchmaker and founder of Agenhor, the company behind numerous extraordinary timepieces such as Van Cleef & Arpels’ Poetic Wish and Hermès’ Temps Suspendu. He shares with us his views on the evolution of his profession and puts into perspective the inventiveness of the industry.

The 2012 edition of the White Turf horse race competitions of St Moritz were held with the expected glamour and style, as well as some evident real and trough races. Both race winner and owner were handed a Parmigiani watch.

Interview with Stephen Forsey who gives us more insights into Greubel Forsey’s launch of the new Double Tourbillon Asymétrique, a timepiece that uses their very innovative and complex 30° double tourbillon.

Results and trends of the May watch auctions held in Geneva at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Antiquorum with an overall sale out of 45 Million Swiss Francs. Christie’s was really the big name with 30 Million in sales and 95% of the lots having found new owners, whereas results were slightly less impressive for the other 2 houses, but listen to what the three auctioneers had to say.

In 1977, Vincent Calabrese invented an incredible movement that thanks to Corum and the vision of René Bannwart would become a few years later the iconic Golden Bridge. More than 30 years after the birth of this watch in 1981, Corum’s CEO Antonio Calce  has pushed for the brand and Mr Calabrese to collaborate again. The goal is to not only to tell the story behind this incredible adventure, but also in exchanging new ideas with the current team of Laurent Besse and who knows what could come out!

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.

Interview with Jérôme Lambert during the 2012 SIHH who talks to us about one of the stars of the show, the Duomètre Spherotourbillon, and the new boutiques of the brand. In this video, you will also see Mark Van Bommel, AC Milan player, and Cristiana Capotondi, italian actress, who came to visit the Jaeger Le Coultre.

“Le Garde Temps” project was unveiled at this year’s SIHH by Greubel Forsey and goes against many preconceived ideas of the watchmaking industry. Totally parallel to the world of open source found in technology, Philippe Dufour, Stephen Forsey and Robert Greubel have put together a real project of transmission of knowledge in order to perpetuate the know-how.