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Business News: Chabi Nouri Becomes Piaget’s New CEO (And The First Female Global CEO Of Any Richemont Watch And Jewelry Brand, Ever)

The changes in leadership at the Richemont Group continue. Richemont has announced that the new global CEO for Piaget will be its international managing director of sales and marketing, Chabi Nouri, who joined the group in 1998 as product manager for Cartier. This is of course an important step for Piaget, but it’s also an historic occasion for Richemont as a whole: Nouri is the first woman to step into the global CEO position for one of the group’s watch and jewelry brands. Women in high-level management positions in the luxury watch industry remain a relative rarity, and it’s nice to see some progress (finally) being made.

Richard Mille’s Celebration Of Jean Todt: Limited Blue RM 11-03, RM 050, And RM 056 Sapphire

Richard Mille celebrates motorsport legend Jean Todt with three new editions of some of Mille’s best design work in Todt’s favorite blue color. The first is the new RM 11-03 Flyback Chronograph in a blue-and-white quartz TPT case. The other two highly limited editions compris the RM 050 and RM 056 Sapphire.

Hands-On: The Bulgari Roma Finissimo With Grey Dial, An Ultra-Thin Version Of Bulgari’s Mid-1970s Design Classic

The Bulgari Roma in the incarnation you see here is a very cool watch in itself: a clear, strong, simple design with all the architectural precision you’d associate with a Bulgari Roma watch. You might recognize the general design, but what you might not know is that the first Bulgari Roma watch came out all the way back in 1975, at an extremely interesting period in the history of modern watchmaking. The original Roma is of the same design generation that gave us the Royal Oak and the Nautilus, and like those two watches, it wasn’t an instant success. Acceptance and enthusiasm took time to evolve, and the more so because the original Roma wasn’t even intended to be a commercial piece. But I think you can make a case for the Roma as the starting point of a design evolution that is in its own way just as iconic as the Royal Oak or the Nautilus, and one whose enduring presence is a sign of its enduring strength as a design.

Alpina Seastrong Horological Smartwatch

In less than two months from now, we will bring you as much news as possible from the biggest watch exhibition in the world. A couple of brands give us a little sneak preview of what’s coming, such as Omega with their new Speedmaster Racing or in this case, Alpina with their Seastrong Horological Smartwatch. […]

Review – The A. Lange & Söhne Tourbograph Perpetual Pour le Merite (Spoiler Alert: It is MEGA)

No need to beat around the bush… Some subjects don’t really need to be debated. The new A. Lange & Söhne Tourbograph Perpetual Pour le Merite is a superlative watch, a proper masterpiece, mixing all the technical marvels of one of the best manufactures in the world (because for once, it’s outside Switzerland), with a strong respect to traditions and a devotion to what is (to me, at least) the most important in a watch; precision. Yes, you could say that the Tourbograph Perpetual Pour le Merite blows things out of proportion but still, whatever the critics will be, we all must admit that this watch is, in every aspect, mega.

Business News: Louis Ferla Is Vacheron Constantin’s New CEO

Vacheron Constantin has appointed Louis Ferla as its new CEO, just three days after news broke of major executive shake-ups at four Richemont brands. Ferla will be taking over from outgoing CEO Juan-Carlos Torres effective April 1, when Torres assumes the position of the company’s new non-executive president.

Review: Laurent Ferrier Galet Classic Tourbillon Double F

In my previous review of Laurent Ferrier’s Galet Classic Square Tourbillon here, I observe the brand to be one that strongly emphasizes on certain values such as simplicity and elegance and these were all reflected in many of its designs. In fact, having previously worked at Patek Philippe for four decades, Laurent Ferrier believed in the…

Three Top $1 Million Watches Unveiled in Geneva During SIHH 2017

By Roberta Naas
Meet some of the world’s most expensive watches of 2017 thus far. Here we bring you a look at three $1 million timepieces unveiled during SIHH 2017.

Introducing The Colorful Sixties Iconic Square Collection By Glashütte Original (With 1960s Dial Colors)

Following the inaugural presentation of the Sixties Iconic Collection in 2015, Glashütte Original takes its tribute to iconic 1960s design to a new level. For those who thought that Glashütte Original watches were rigorous and very teutonic (well, some are, yet in a very beautiful way), you might have to change your mind about the brand. They can also go a bit out of the box. A vintage and original rounded-square design, combined with super-bright colors… Yes, the Glashütte Original Sixties Iconic Square Collection comes from that same Saxonian manufacture that can create the Senator Chronometer. And we won’t complain that they dare to look back at iconic design elements first presented in “Spezimatic” models produced in the 1960s.

Business News – Swatch Group 2016 Results Worse Than Expected / Net Sales Drop Over 10%, Net Income Drops 47%

For more than 2 years now, the watchmaking industry is facing a “crisis” or at least, sales and profits are lower than in the 2000s, the golden era of modern watchmaking. After Richemont announced massive shakeups and rather bad results, it’s now time for Swatch Group to make public the results for the year 2016… and they’re not good. Sales are decreasing over 10% (compared to 2015), operating result plunges of close to 45% and the net income is almost half of what it has been in 2015 (which was already not the best year the industry has seen).