Throughout millennia, researchers and inventors strived to build a perpetual motion machine, a device that would continue to move indefinitely once started. Without any external source of power, it was believed that the machine itself would generate an unlimited amount of energy. It was only with the formulation of the law of conservation of energy in the middle of the...

Imbued with the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment, Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud unveils a new experimental collection, combining the in-house tourbillon movement with a new display of the age and phases of the moon: the Chronomètre FB 1L. Available in two ten-piece limited editions – with a case in white gold and black ceramic lugs, or in anthracite ceramised titanium &...

More than a means, exploring has become Ulysse Nardin’s motivation. The X-factor is the answer: X like an adventure, X like our deepest desires, X for the unknown, X for what’s forbidden, bold and exciting. Skeleton X is the perfect showcase of this new X-ray vision of watchmaking. Blurring the frontiers between our inner and the outer worlds, X-rays allow...

Driving Ambition Roger Dubuis shifts into horological overdrive with the Excalibur Huracán, the newest creation from the Swiss manufacture’s partnership with Lamborghini Squadra Corse. It’s usually a short drive from car enthusiast to watch collector. For many people, these mechanical passions often fuel one another. Roger Dubuis understands the power of that connection and has harnessed it to create a...

The Toric Hemispheres Retrograde is the ultimate traveler’s timepiece. With its two time zones, it allows any two locations to be paired, correct to the nearest minute. It even allows those locations with a half-hour or quarter-hour difference to be paired with full hour times set from the Greenwich Meridian. Following the success of the Toric Hemispheres Retrograde at the...

With its original regulator-type display and its ultra-resistant carburised stainless steel case, the Chronomètre FB-1R.6-1 enriches the Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud collection. This new presentation radically transforms an exceptional timepiece whose complications, together with the quality of its construction and production, remain true to their underlying philosophy. Its FB-T.FC.R tourbillon caliber with fusee-and-chain transmission can be admired through a sapphire crystal...