Category: SIHH 2017

Pre-SIHH 2017: HYT Brings Mechanical Lumination to the Pocket Watch

By Roberta Naas
Just in time for the upcoming SIHH 2017, HYT unveils an exciting new timepiece that blends history with futuristic concepts. In its all new Skull Pocket watch, the brand combines its famed liquid time indication with a mechanical light source to enhance the dial and time-telling function — all in a modern, yet vintage-inspired, pocket watch rendition. This marks the brand’s first-ever skull, mechanical light source combination. It is also the brand’s first pocket watch.

8 years ago

HYT Skull Pocket Watch

Marvel comic villains looking for a dramatic statement piece used to measure the countdown to interplanetary destruction will be pleased to learn of the newly announced HYT Skull Pocket Watch – a wild reinterpretation of the humble pocketwatch that would have its inventor, clockmaker Peter Henlein, rolling in his Nuremberg grave.

8 years ago

SIHH 2017: Introducing the HYT Skull Pocket Watch

Soon to be officially unveiled at SIHH 2017, HYT‘s first pocket watch is a hunter or savonette, with a hinged lid on the front that lifts to reveal the skull-shaped face. The time display is identical to that of the Skull wristwatch, with fluid travelling through a tiny glass tube that traces the outline of the […]

8 years ago

Christophe Claret Maestro Watch

Master watchmaker Christophe Claret will unveil his new Maestro watch at SIHH 2017. Let us talk you through this breathtaking new watch here.

8 years ago

Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic Tourbillon Universal Time Watch

“When in doubt, add tourbillon.” This might have been the mantra for many high-end watch brands since the dawn of the new millennium, and while the tourbillon trend is tired, it is far from being dead… a point proven by the latest pre-SIHH release coming in the shape of the new Jaeger-LeCoultre Geophysic Tourbillon Universal Time.

8 years ago

SIHH 2017: IWC Introduces the Redesigned, And Round, Da Vinci

With SIHH 2017 just around the corner IWC has taken the covers off the revamped Da Vinci, which now returns to the familiar round form of the model’s best known iteration. Named after the Renaissance polymath, the IWC Da Vinci actually originated in the 1970s, starting with a blocky looking electronic watch powered by the Beta 21, […]

8 years ago

SIHH 2017: Introducing the Baume & Mercier Clifton GMT Power Reserve

Baume & Mercier combines a second time zone display and power reserve in a watch that will soon be officially unveiled at SIHH 2017. It joins the Clifton collection, mostly comprised of mechanical watches that offer good value but are pricey in absolute terms, like the recent Clifton Perpetual Calendar. The new Clifton GMT Power Reserve, on […]

8 years ago

Join aBlogtoWatch Day @ SIHH 2017 On January 19th

aBlogtoWatch and the organizers of “the most exclusive fine watchmaking trade show” event would like to invite a small handful of our audience members who are already in the Geneva, Switzerland, area on Thursday, January 19th, 2017, for a day at the Salon International De La Haute Horology (SIHH).

8 years ago

SIHH 2017: Illuminated Nighttime Aerial Landscapes in Grand Feu Enamel by Vacheron Constantin

Vacheron Constantin has a full suite of Métiers d’Art timepieces featuring lavish decoration in enamel and other artisanal techniques, but the Métiers d’Art Villes Lumières centres on an unusual theme: nighttime aerial views of New York, Paris or Geneva. Each of the Villes Lumières – which translates as “city lights” – depicts the cityscape with champlevé enamel in varying hues of […]

8 years ago