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.

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.

The Cartier Manufacture has created a new timepiece that is a true symbol of horological innovation.

The oversized Cartier Santos Triple 100 watch delivers a great surprise due to the first-ever rotating-dial mechanism united with a skeleton movement : Turn the crown, and you can select between three unique identities!
The three different dial faces of the Cartier Santos Triple 100 watch appear in succession: from a classic face featuring 12 Roman numerals, to a face completely paved with round diamonds and black sapphires in a marvellous jeweller’s chessboard, followed finally by a face engraved with a tiger’s head, which required over 40 hours’ work.

The team of watchmakers developed mobile prisms in 18K white gold. The prisms get activated simultaneously with help of the crown. They are operated by a miniature-gear-trains system that makes them swivel gradually in one direction or the other, thus allowing the Cartier watch reveal three different dial faces.

Moreover, the timepiece with the case crafted in 18K white gold is entirely set with precious stones.
It will be available to most avid watch connoisseurs in a numbered limited edition of only 20 pieces.

Source : infoniac / hautehorlogerie

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.

Creator Frédéric Garinaud & CSH developed the Opus 8 with a new twist on mechanical-digital watches.

Inspired by pin art games, which create 3D impressions of objects pressed against them, the numbers in the display will only appear “upon request,” activated by a bolt on the right hand side of the case.

Nothing appears until the mechanism is wound.