November 20th, 2009

Fragment design’s Hiroshi Fujiwara has teamed up with Rolex and Bamford Watch Department on a new Oyster Perpetual Explorer watch.
The Oyster Perpetual Explorer gets the blacked out treatment with blue detailing seen on the 3, 6 and 9 hour markers, the second hand and the fragment logo.

November 16th, 2009

Omega is kicking off a worldwide advertising campaign in celebration of the tenth anniversary of its revolutionary Co-Axial escapement.
The advertisements feature photographs of Omega’s brand ambassadors sporting loupes, the magnifying glasses favoured by watchmakers.

October 5th, 2009

The Lange & Sohne’s watch will be available at the Dubai store with a retail price of 1.2 million euros (or about $1.75 million).
September 2nd, 2009

On August 28th, Jean-Claude Biver unveiled in front of the Old Trafford stadium the biggest clock ever built by Hublot.
It was specially created for the reigning English champions, and, at a height of 10 metres, designed to take pride of place in front of the legendary stadium.
The clock was unveiled in the presence of Sir Alex Ferguson and the Manchester United players.

August 31st, 2009

Luxury Swiss watch and jewellery maker Chopard has just taken a substantial order from Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The order was for 250 limited edition watches valued at around 8 million Swiss Francs ($7.5 million).
They should each have the likeness of Colonel Gaddafi on them in some form and were ordered to celebrate his 40th anniversary of being in office.
