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Richemont Announces Strong Quarterly Results just before SIHH 2018 - Monochrome Watches
Just days ahead of the launch of the 2018 edition of the SIHH – the Geneva-based watch fair where all the watchmaking brands of the Richemont Group present their novelties – the Richemont Group posts its financial results for?the last quarter of 2017. The positive trend continues with an overall 7% increase in sales for the Group.Firstly, note that growth is mainly registered at constant exchange rates. The influence of currencies is rather negative, which has a strong impact on results at actual exchange rates. However, at constant exchange rates, Richemont Group shows a promising growth of 7% overall for the last quarter of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016. Ad - Scroll to continue with article When looked at in detail, we see that most regions grew with sustained double-digit growth. In the?Asia Pacific region, growth is mainly driven by t
IWC Re-Engineers Ingenieur for 2013! - Monochrome Watches
Progress can be an unsentimental and unforgiving thing. Sometimes we must move on and forsake the past in anticipation of the future. Fortunately for IWC and their Ingenieur line - the past is not such a bad thing!? Instead of obliterating it IWC have chosen to evolutionize it!To hardcore watch fans, few names elicit a primal response like the IWC Ingenieur. Drawing back to the middle of the last century - the Ingeniuer was IWC's show piece. With it's Albert Pellaton designed bidirectional movement, IWC was able to enter the vanguard of sports watchmakers circa 1955. Over the past 58 years the line of watches and it's movement have been steadily refined and improved. For 2013 IWC have just taken the wraps off of a freshly redesigned Ingeniuer line-up; the new pieces look just that - new, but the family lineage going back the fabled Ref. 1832, penned by one of the most important and influential watch designers of all time - Gerald Genta. Ad - Scroll to continue with article
Interview: Thierry Stern, President of Patek Philippe, On The Tokyo Grand Exhibition
From 10 to 25 June 2023, Patek Philippe hosted the largest exhibition ever organized by the manufacture, the Grand Exhibition “Watch Art” Tokyo 2023. Some 60,000 visitors attended what's surely a success for the brand, which was accompanied by the launch of several limited editions, including two technical timepieces making their global debut. An important part of the communication strategy of the brand, these exhibitions allow collectors and simple watch enthusiasts to immerse themselves into the exclusive world of Patek. We're talking with Mr Thierry Stern, President of Patek Philippe, about the importance and purposes of these Grand Exhibitions.After Dubai in 2012, Munich in 2013, London in 2015, New York in 2017 and Singapore in 2019, Patek Philippe chose Tokyo for the sixth of its grand exhibitions across the world. Historically an important market for watchmaking, gathering some of the most discerning collectors around the globe, Japan was a suitable place for this 20
TAG Heuer Carrera Porsche Chronograph - Review, Specs & Price
The alliance between TAG Heuer and Porsche is the culmination of a fascinating and entwined history marked by an obsession with speed and motorsports. Envisioned as a collaboration ranging from competition to product development, the partnership between the two powerhouses is celebrated with a 44mm TAG Heuer Carrera Porsche Chronograph. For many, this partnership is a match made in heaven. Marrying the Swiss watchmaking brand with the strongest ties to motorsports to the legendary German sports car brand makes a lot of sense, especially since both brands happen to have products with the name Carrera. The name Carrera for watchmaking fans is the soul of TAG Heuer incarnated by Jack Heuer's 1963 chronograph, at Porsche, the name Carrera is synonymous with the carmaker's most powerful engines. Let's take a closer look at the remarkable histories of both brands and how an open-road race in Mexico inspired their most emblematic products.Obsessed with speedBorn just 35 years apart, I very mu
British Watchmaking: Introducing the Garrick Shaftesbury SM301 (specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
England might not instantly leap out as a natural ancestral home for a new watchmaking company, but for Garrick and its owner David Brailsford, the location of its centre of operations was never in question. Watchmaking has a rich historical connection with England, and back when the foundations of the science were being established, the city of London was at the forefront of technical innovation in horology, and it is upon that history that the Garrick Watch company was conceived.For a new company to cite such horlogic legends as Arnold, Mudge, Harrisson, Graham and Tompion as its inspiration is an eyebrow raising way to make an entrance, but the new Garrick Shaftesbury SM301 watch and the approach to its creation make for an impressive statement of intent. Ad - Scroll to continue with article The Garrick Shaftesbury SM301 is a fresh and confident debut from th