The ever elegant Arceau timepiece from Hermes is undergoing a bit of technical facelift this year with the introduction of a Chronograph variant.

As with any Hermes watch the details are impeccable, from the watch hands which are colored in the company’s signature orange to the black barenia calf leather strap.

M. Gerald Genta is one of the world’s greatest contemporary horologists.

Over his long and illustrious career, he has accumulated universal fame for such iconic creations as the Patek Philippe Nautilus, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and the IWC Ingenieur.

His watches are amongst the most coveted and collectible in the world.

One of the most interesting Cartier watches presented at this year’s Salon International de Haute Horlogerie, was the Rotonde Central Chronograph, which uses Cartier’s new in-house manually-wound 9907 MC caliber movement built in La Chaux de Fonds.

Crafted from 18-karat pink gold, the round case of the Rotonde Central Chronograph timepiece measures 42mm in diameter; the grandeur of this form is enhanced by such distinguished Cartier signatures as the beaded crown with its blue sapphire cabochon.

The timepiece is completed by an alligator leather strap, and an adjustable folding buckle in 18-karat pink gold.

The F.P. Journe Centigraphe Souverain is a pretty incredible piece of haute horlogerie. a first and foremost the creme de la creme of chronographs.

“Perhaps you have super-human reflexes and would like to measure the speed of an asteroid caroming through the atmosphere?” With the Centigraphe, you can do that, thanks to an exceptional manually wound chronograph movement

This complex mechanism features three subdials, each of which are marked with a time scale, and a tachymeter.

Nicolas Rieussec is of course the noted and lauded inventor of the chronograph mechanism, with the actual writing of time via ink on the dial.

Today, the chronograph in a wristwatch of course uses hands, subdials, rotating discs, retrograde displays and others to display elapsed time.

For its part, Montblanc introduces a monopusher chronograph with an in-house movement to complement its haute horlogerie line and has obtained rights to use the name Nicolas Rieussec, hence the name of this piece.