In preparation for the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season that starts on April 26th at Spa-Francorchamps, Richard Mille presents the new RM 07-01 Racing Red. This new ladies’ watch will be making its first appearance at the high temple of endurance. With its all-female trio of Beitske Visser, Sophia Flörsch, and Tatiana Calderón, the team sponsored by the eponymous watch brand is sure to garner plenty of attention as it makes its FIA World Endurance Championship —WEC— debut in LMP2.
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News: Bell & Ross BR 03-92 Diver Military Limited Edition
Since its origins, Bell & Ross has built a strong history in underwater exploration and now extends its Diver collection with a new model that reflects its core DNA and reaffirms the brand’s functional approach. With its olive drab tone, the new BR 03-92 Diver Military mirrors the color of the military uniform of these men for whom discretion is the ultimate priority while in mission and makes it a superbly camouflaged watch.
News: Presenting the Richard Mille RM 21-01 Tourbillon Aerodyne
The superlative quality of a Richard Mille watch is in equal measure the architecture and materials it is made of. Naturally, it would be impossible to design watches capable of resisting extreme conditions without using constituents that were themselves created to handle punishing demands. In capitalizing on engineering materials —particularly from the fields of aeronautics and Formula 1— and testing their potential applications in a watch movement or its housing, Richard Mille brings into being watches whose precision, lightness, and reliability are intimately bound to the materials employed.
News: Presenting the Bell & Ross Vintage BR V2-94 FULL LUM
With the Bell & Ross Vintage BR V2-94 FULL LUM, the brand worked with different shades of luminescence. Perfectly legible both night and day, the dial of the Vintage FULL LUM combines two superluminova colors in pale green and pale yellow. This combination of colors gives the watch a professional appearance.
News: Presenting the Chopard L.U.C Qualité Fleurier Jubilee. First Stainless Steel Piece in the L.U.C Collection.
Released on the cusp of the Chopard Manufacture's 25th anniversary, the brand is presenting the L.U.C QF Jubilee limited edition. This 25-piece limited edition sums up the three core values of the L.U.C collection, namely technical performance, aesthetic refinement and an enduring attachment to certified watchmaking. This is the first L.U.C stainless steel timepiece with Fleurier Quality Foundation certification
News: Presenting the Cartier Ballon Bleu de Cartier New Size at 40 mm and New Dials
The Ballon Bleu de Cartier watch was created in 2007. Worn by both men and women alike, who appreciate its personality and comfort when worn, this piece has rapidly become a resounding success and a Cartier icon. Whether Fine Watchmaking models or jewelry versions, Ballon Bleu has inspired Cartier to create many different variants on metal bracelets or leather straps.
News: Presenting the Urwerk UR-100V Blue Planet
Urwerk’s horological Skunk Works launches a limited edition of 25 pieces into orbit. The new UR-100V “Blue Planet” tracks the earth and our solar system: it’s a 24-hour invitation to interstellar travel and the pleasure of savoring time. With interplanetary imagination, science-fiction iconography, and limitless creative freedom, Urwerk has its roots in spatial horology.
Breaking News: Jean-Claude Biver and WISeKey Announce First NFT Auction in Luxury Watch World
Jean-Claude Biver and the Swiss company WISeKey are leading the way, announcing the first NFT auction in the luxury watch space. Where auctions are already soaring for works of art and intangibles, never before has a luxury watch been the subject of an NFT —Non-Fungible Token— sale. To make history, Jean-Claude Biver has symbolically chosen the famous Hublot Bigger Bang All Black Tourbillon Chronograph
News: Audemars Piguet CODE 11.59 Chronograph with Ceramic Middle Case ref. 26393
For the very first time, Audemars Piguet evolves the CODE 11.59 collection with two pioneering models bringing together 18K white or pink gold cases with black ceramic middle cases. Entwining bold aesthetics and uncompromising craftsmanship, these two-tone timepieces have pushed the manufacturing and hand finishing of the collection’s multi-faceted case to new heights. While the bezel, lugs, and case back are made in 18K white or pink gold, the octagonal middle case is honed from black ceramics.
News: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chrono with In-House Movement ref. 26239
Audemars Piguet is pleased to unveil a new evolution of the Royal Oak Chronograph. Housed within a 41mm 18K pink gold case, this model is equipped for the first time with the latest generation in-house chronograph movement, the automatic Calibre 4401, visible through the watch’s sapphire case back. Two dial options are available, executed in blue or brown hues.
News: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Flying Tourbillon Flyback Chronograph ref. 26622TI
Audemars Piguet is happy to announce the release of a new complication in the Royal Oak Offshore collection. Limited to 100 pieces, the new self-winding timepiece combines flying tourbillon with flyback chronograph in a brand new case diameter of 43 mm, paving the way for a new generation of redesigned Royal Oak Offshore models.
News: Presenting the MB&F LMX Celebrating 10 Years of Legacy Machines
The new LMX returns to the earliest encounter with the Legacy Machine collection, utilizing the same expression comprising a central flying balance wheel and two dials, although everything else is different. Those familiar with MB&F’s very first Legacy Machine will instinctively know how LMX operates. Two dials of stretched white lacquer, each with its own display of hours and minutes. The dial on the right is set by the crown at the 2 o’clock position, which bears an engraving of the MB&F battle-ax and also winds the movement.
News: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Next Generation ref. 15720ST in 3 Versions
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver has always been a favorite and the entry point watch into the Royal Oak Offshore collection. For 2021, Audemars Piguet has updated the Royal Oak Offshore Diver maintaining the same case proportions at 42 mm in diameter but this time the watch is equipped with ceramic crowns, a new dial with applied ‘AP’ logo at 12 o’clock, a new in-house automatic calibre 4308 and an interchangeable strap system that allows the wearer to switch between straps without the need for tools.
News: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Collection Goes All Green with Five New Models
Right after St. Patrick’s Day, Audemars Piguet goes all green presenting five brand new Royal Oaks all featuring bright green dials. The new green dial models include a new Royal Oak Extra-Thin ‘Jumbo’ in platinum ref. 15202PT.OO.1240PT.01, a limited edition 41 mm Royal Oak Chronograph in 18K yellow gold ref. 26331BA.OO.1220BA.02 in a limited edition of 125 pieces, then a 50-piece limited edition 41 mm Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon in titanium ref. 26534TI.OO.1220TI.01,
News: Presenting the De Bethune DB28XP Meteorite
The iconic De Bethune DB28XP now appears with a black zirconium case and a meteorite dial featuring distinctive geometric shapes and only 10 numbered timepieces will be produced. A crystallized moment, testifying to the very birth of a galaxy. De Bethune pays tribute to the pure and unrestrained force of nature. Created from a meteorite, the DB28XP Meteorite inspires and touches the explorer’s heart beating every human being.
News: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual UAE Limited Edition ref. 26613ST
Joining the other regional or country-specific limited editions of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar comes now a 75-piece limited edition for the United Arab Emirates. These limited edition pieces include the 50-piece limited edition in platinum with ice blue dial for Switzerland, the 100-piece in pink gold with pink-toned dial for Latin America, the 50-piece in stainless steel with a green dial for Hong Kong, the 88-piece collaboration with Horoloupe in titanium with a slate grey dial with red accents for China, the 20-piece in platinum with black dial for Yoshida in Japan, the 20-piece in white gold with a red dial for Thailand, and lastly the 20-piece in platinum with sand-colored dial for the Time Place in Indonesia.
News: Presenting the Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms No Rad 500-Piece Limited Edition
Blancpain reinterprets one of its emblematic historical timepieces, the Fifty Fathoms "no radiations". This mid-1960s diving instrument, of which one version was used by the German Navy's Combat Swimmers, had the characteristic feature of being stamped with a "no radiations" logo indicating that Blancpain was not using luminescent materials composed of radium.
News: IWC, Panerai & Jaeger-LeCoultre Opening Boutiques in San Francisco
Three of the world’s leading luxury watch brands including IWC Schaffhausen, Panerai, and Jaeger-LeCoultre announced today the opening of their first boutiques in San Francisco at the Westfield San Francisco Centre and Westfield Valley Fair. This significant series of openings underlines the importance of the Golden Gate City as a West Coast hub not only of technology and commerce but also of watch collecting and fine watch culture. Never before have local clients experienced first-hand each brand’s unique lifestyle and culture the way it is possible through an immersive boutique.
News: Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team Heads for the America's Cup with Panerai as Official Timekeeper
The Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Italian team, led by Max Sirena, triumphed in the Series 7-1 in the Prada Cup over Ineos Team UK, ensuring the right to challenge the New Zealanders on the occasion of the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada, scheduled from the 6th to the 15th of March, 2021 in the Hauraki Gulf. For only the third time in history, an Italian team will compete in the America’s Cup Match. There have been only two precedents: in 1992 with the legendary Moro di Venezia led by Raul Gardini with Paul Cayard at the helm and in 2000, with the first Luna Rossa, entrusted to Francesco De Angelis.
News: Meet the 2021 Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Skelet-One Models. Three New Limited Edition Versions.
Today, Jaquet Droz unveils three new unique limited-edition versions of the Grande Seconde Skelet-One. Its signature figure-eight design is formed by an entirely sapphire dial along with indexes and hands in 18K gold suspended above a brushed hours and minutes ring. At 6 o’clock, the large seconds hand that soars over the sapphire creates the illusion that it is floating, while directly below the tiniest details of a hand-crafted movement can be admired.
