This year’s Hours and Miracle Fair in Geneva is the largest so far, with 60 exhibition marks (six in the past year) and more public access than ever before. There is also a number of aside, including demonstrations from interns, not to mention a new food court and seminars on the storytelling for children. But again at the main event, what are the highlights of this year’s show?
Bulgaria
This is the first year Bvlgari moves from exposure to Suites hotels to show in the rooms of the right wonders and miracles. His debut is inevitably marked with a serpent (serpenti Aeterna), but as you have never seen before. In the way Brâncuși moved from seemingly abstract figurative works that came to be understood only on their subjects, there is only the most detailed, no more suggestion of a snake in this attractive and sculptural hour located in the diamond. Meanwhile, in Haute Horlogerie, Octo Finissimo Ultra, that paradigm of Ozepic clock, further explores the aesthetics of the skeleton Bvlgari began with Finissimo and its eight-day energy reserve in 2022.
Cartion
Cartier has not yet ended up by the classics to revive as part of Cartier Privé, surely the best retro-retro-ri-ri-ri-reassessment platform in business. So far, the brand has dealt with the clash, Cloche, Tonneau, The Tortue, The Pebble, The Normal Tank, Tank Asymétrique, Tank Chinoise, Normal Tank and Tank Cintrée. This year is the turn of à guichets tanks. I think you can call it an early digital watch as long as time is said by the numbers that appear in windows that pierce a different empty surface.
JAGER-LeCoultre Rose-Gold Reverso TRUBITE Nonantieme, 68,500 £
Chopard Rose-Gold Luc Quattro Spirit 25, 61,600 £
Intriguing, Guichet seems to be going through a moment after a similar hour has already departed from Louis Vuitton, and Watches and Wonders sees another from Jaeger -LeCoultre, Guichet reverso tributes Shahnameh and reverso tributes of small seconds – it’s enough to give you square eyes. Also making a statement with her call is Marquetry Straw’s CHOPARD-very stylish dance hour in a way of Jean-Michel Frank.
A Long & Sons
Normally so discreet and self-infectious, the founded brand of Glashütte has surprised, surprised and, in my case, pleased the clock lovers releasing a full “Honeygold” case and Odysseus bracelet. While it is perfect for summer swimming on the Elbe River in Dresden, the birthplace of Ferdinand Brand Adolph Lange founder, this watch is more likely to appear in Côte d’Azur.
Parai
A new CEO, Emmanuel Perrin, takes over the preserved manufacturer of what is currently big hours. But it remains a difficult essence of the collectors, the Panerist, who will undoubtedly be pleased to see the new, thinner, 500 -meter -old lighting Navy on the occasion without a generous 44 mm compromise. I hope you have so much from the little clock pumpkin, they break down their values and will not bend in fashion now … Everything below 40 mm would simply not be right for a man’s panetics.
And it is not the only brand that maintains its membership among 40 mm-club: Look for 44 mm of IWC’s the Big Pilot’s Absorber Tourbillon XPL-for the first time that SPRIN-G Protect System System System System yesterday a turbillon.
Patek Philippe
It is a year of power reserve in Patek Philippe. There is an eight days caratrava with a daily function; It also has the Clous de Paris random bar now becoming a signature of the most exalted hours on the Calatrava line. There is also a clock of the 31-day energy reserve table, modeled in the originals owned by the great collectors Pette Henry Graves Jr and James Ward Packard. Accuracy is stunning: +/- 1 second a day: each self-respecting plutocrates should have at least one in a little more than SFR1MN.
The other big news is a “baby” (40 mm) cubit-and I can see myself wearing the golden repetition with brown dial.
Unsaturated
CEO Benjamin COMAR is reviewing piaget with beautiful hours exploring the last period of the late 1960s and 1970s, when jewelery and hormology gathered like never before. As well as doubled to the triumphant return of the “true” polo (not nautilus-namilus-embarrassing steel) with a white-Ari-please version can we even have a bicolour? – The brand is enriching its essential offer for women with Sixtie. A trapezoidal watch (available in a bracelet or, even better, like sautoir), it again remembers the golden age of the brand. Dials can be restricted if you prefer your piaage on the quietest side; But she screams to dress with turquoise call.
Rolex
Rolex Everose-Gold-Gold Oyster Eternal Dweller of Earth, £ 77,250
The release of a whole new seafood, Dweller Land, Watch is one of the most important Rolex omissions so far this century. Given that the addition or subtraction of a millimeter to a random diameter in Rolex is the cause of mild hysteria in the viewing community, it is difficult to predict the impact of the internet fracture that the landowner will have. And remember that it is the 80th birthday of date, a true classic and one of the most popular hours in the world, so expect some actions about this model.
Tag heuer
This year Tag Heuer is (almost) everything for Formula 1 – after all, if you have passed an asset to sponsorship the Grand Prix Motor Racing, you will want a little ROI. So the main beginning of the year is an original formula 1 -80s processing, with all the bright pops of the colors that are old enough to remember memory. It was not the high end, but it was fun. The new General F1 will come in an essential color palette (yellow, blue, green, black, etc.) with limited directions of different colors for individual prix grands. The original was equipped with a quartz movement, but the resurrection uses neither conventional quartz nor a free mechanical caliber, but is equipped with the sun -strengthened “Solargraf” movement. On the other side of the price scale will have 10 white ceramic monacos with limited edition equipped with the chronographer designed by Carole Forestier rattran made and dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Formula 1.
Van Cleef & Arpels
Over the past 10-15 years, Van Cleef & Arpels has emerged as a score schedule, known by numerous winning at GPHG. It stands out with its “poetic complications”: flower dialects that open and near to show time, watching where butterflies fly and flowers shake gently in the wind and an hour in which two lovers walk towards each other in a bridge to meet for a kiss. This last hour was launched 15 years ago and now there is a continuation, Lady Arpels Bal des Amouux Automate Watch, where lovers have left the bridge and are dancing down a Parisian road. (Equally visually is the number of the new Slim of Hermès, with good quality carriages from designer and illustrator Daiske Nomura playing around the dial.)
Hermès White-Gold Slim of Hermès car in balance, £ 74,000
Vackeron Constantine
Cabinors made by Vacheron Constantin Solaria Ultra Grand Excellent complication with the detection of its complications. Vacheron claims to be the most complex schedule of the hand sometimes made and out of hand I can’t think of another pride in 41 complications. I am particularly intrigued by the complication by calling myself the “temporary tracking of heavenly objects”, which I am reliably informed is not a mechanical system of UFO detection, more is regret. This star creation is supported by a cast of classics by tradition and an even more restrained heritage.
Zenith
I applaud Zenith’s idea to re-enter the fictional caliber 135, launched for the first time in 1949. Although Zenith is much best known to his El Primero, 135 is a true cult and its reappearance on the 160th birthday of the brand is a genius blow. New 135 is not a direct copy, but rather an improved version of the original: the energy reserve has increased from 40 hours to a more contemporary 72, energy loss has been softened by a new gear train, but the well -known compensation center remains, making room to accommodate the large balance of the original balance of 18,000. observation. Random on platinum, the clock is simply known as GFJ (the initials of the founder of Zenith Georges favre-jacot).
