To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Boucheron, the celebrated jeweller of the Place Vendome, has decided to create unique objects in collaboration with international brand names: the manufacturer of luxury mobile phones Vertu, jewellery designer Harumi Klossowska, la Maison du chocolat and Richard Mille.

Richard Mille, famous for his pioneering spirit, has managed to reinvent watchmaking with the use of innovative materials and technologies to come up with 21st-century horology. The Parisian jeweler, has designed the “Hommage à Boucheron” RM 018 timepiece which an incredible piece in which the gear-train of the movement is manufactured from precious and semi-precious stones.

Both firms have a hand in the production of this tourbillon watch brimming with elegance and refinement: The tourbillon watch has a case and movement produced by Richard Mille and features the precious and semi-precious stones selected and elaborated by Boucheron.

Each tourbillon wristwatch will possess a unique nature : Limited to 30 pieces individual pieces in 18K white gold, the edition will in fact consist solely of unique pieces due to the different combinations of stones.

Bvlgari have expanded the Bvlgari Diagono watch collection with a luxurious new limited edition model.

The Bvlgari Diagono Retrograde Calendar Moonphase watch features a 42mm case made from brushed and polished 18K rose gold, a bezel engraved with the iconic Bvlgari-Bvlgari signature, and an intricate dial that showcases multiple textures and polished and faceted indexes.

The watch displays the moon phase on a half dial at the bottom of the display and the rose gold sectors at 9 and 3 o’clock show the day of the week and the date.

Luxuo would like to introduce a new and highly exclusive luxury watch brand called “Maîtres du Temps”:

Launched this year during the week of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, Switzerland, Maîtres du Temps is a new luxury watch brand that is unique in its kind.

Based on the concept of bringing independent master watchmakers together in a collaborative effort, Maîtres du Temps launched its first watch “Chapter One” last April.

Created by master watchmakers Christophe Claret, Peter Speake-Marin and Roger Dubuis, Chapter One is a world first combination of complications comprising a tourbillion, mono-pusher chronograph, retrograde date, retrograde GMT and two idiosyncratic rolling bars, indicating the day of the week and phase of the moon.

Declined in a limited series of four different versions, Chapter One has been introduced to the market for a suggested retail price of $ 400.000, firmly positioning itself among the highest ranks of high horology.

From the extremely popular Alhambra collection, Van Cleef & Arpels introduced this new version of the Alhambra watch at SIHH 2008.

Keeping with the clover shapes that are the theme of the Alhambra collection, this watch brings black onyx and 18k yellow gold to the already stylish design. Each of the two sizes of clovers is outlined with round shapes, as is the clover-shaped dial. Van Cleef & Arpels makes yet another amazing watch that doubles as a bracelet easily and beautifully.

The Jaquet Droz Seule Aiguille watch is one of the most distinctively elegant timepieces to debut at Basel this year. Its French name alludes to its single blued steel hour hand, which completes a revolution around the dial once every 24 hours. But how do you tell the minutes? And you have to estimate to the nearest quarter, by using the hash marks between the hours.

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.