Opposites attract, they say. There’s success in excess. In a world of sensory overload, what do we turn to? We walk. We climb. We embrace the unknown. We explore the extremes. Timing is key. Focus is key. Decisive souls shatter patterns once known, draw the fierce lines of a new world. Our minds are designed to soar, to rise and...

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Romain Gauthier. It is fitting, then, that the Swiss watchmaker’s latest creation, Insight Micro-Rotor Squelette, calls on an area of craftsmanship for which he and his team have been heralded since the birth of the brand in 2005: hand-finishing. By opening up and stripping down his high-end, time-only automatic caliber, Romain has created...

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...

Ulysse Nardin CEO Patrick Pruniaux was in America last week to help the company christen its new Marine Mega Yacht during the Watches and Wonders show in Miami. (Pictured above with Cellini President Leon Adams) The watch’s complicated movement and ornate decoration show off some of the Swiss manufacture’s specialties to great effect. “It’s one watch, but it does a...

Girard-Perregaux, aesthete of the invisible, explores the Cosmos, the essence of time. The Swiss watch manufacture is introducing a new universe, innovative materials and unexpected complications within its fundamental collections united under a single theme: “Earth to Sky.” Just one year ago, Girard-Perregaux introduced the Neo-Tourbillon with Three Bridges Skeleton. Today, Girard-Perregaux is unveiling Quasar, a timepiece revealing a new...

Roger Dubuis takes innovation to the next level with the revolutionary introduction of carbon to its iconic Excalibur Spider concept with the Excalibur Spider Carbon Automatic Skeleton.  Perpetually on the lookout for original technical developments and unusual aesthetic options, Roger Dubuis has acquired an international reputation as an avant-garde maison, a ‘serial innovator’ with a dynamic research-driven approach to watchmaking....