Super Machines And Horological Heroes
Singapore, 21 August 2013 – The Hour Glass will unveil another groundbreaking project in the form of a pop-up store situated at the heart of Orchard Road at leading shopping centre, Paragon from 18th...
View ArticleBovet’s “The Art & Poetry of Artisinal Engraving” exhibition.
On Wednesday the Revolution team were invited to Bovet’s “The Art & Poetry of Artisinal Engraving” exhibition at the Sincere Haute Horlogerie, Hilton Shopping Gallery in Singapore. Running until...
View ArticleThe Seamaster Aqua Terra > 15’000 gauss
One of the most dramatic technological innovations in recent memory is the OMEGA Co-Axial caliber 8508. It is resistant to magnetic fields greater than 1.5 tesla (15,000 gauss), far exceeding the...
View ArticleHublot’s First Pop-Up Store awarded ‘Best Award’ at the World Architecture...
The first Hublot pop-up store built in Singapore at the main atrium of the iconic Paragon Shopping Mall, September 2012, has been awarded“Best Award” (Grande Prize / Gold Medal) at the prestigious WAF...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix MD
Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix’s Managing Director, talks to Revolution Switzerland’s Sophie Furley about why he left the company and came back, and how, with the help of a new owner and an amazing team,...
View ArticleRichard Mille Premieres New Material In Watchmaking — Again!
The Swiss purveyors of high-end, stratospherically priced timepieces clad in space-age materials — otherwise known as the good folks of team Richard Mille — have introduced the RM 011 in a new type of...
View ArticleSIHH 2014: Vacheron Constantin Showcases The Art Of Openworked Movements
It’s difficult to generalize about a company with as long a history and as comprehensive a range of technical capacities as Vacheron Constantin, but we can’t help feeling as if this is the year they’ve...
View ArticlePop Goes Hublot: The Ladies’ Big Bang Pop Art
This year’s SIHH suggested that, even more so than last year, 2014 will be the year of women’s watches with brands from Ralph Lauren to Richard Mille via Parmigiani and Audemars all presenting new...
View ArticleOld School Meets High-Tech: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Chronograph...
Jaeger-LeCoultre is a modern manufacture, often taking the lead in new developments coming from a stellar reputation when it comes to movement design and development. Yet, they will not give up on...
View ArticleMechanical Magic: MCT Sequential TWO – S200
Last year we heard rumours that MCT (Manufacture Contemperaine du Temps), one of the most creative Swiss Independent brands would announce their second model. In March, this year the brand confirmed...
View ArticleRolex Cellini Date: the other Rolex
Rolex has for decades been the largest high end Swiss watch brand and produces far more than any other Swiss watchmaker. A fact that most people are aware of. But what’s not so well known is the fact...
View ArticleURWERK UR-105M in Daily Life
Last February I visited URWERK in Geneva and while I was talking to Press Manager Yacine Sar, about the UR-210, she surprised me completely by presented me the brand new UR-105M, that was still under...
View ArticleUrwerk Upgrades Its 105 Collection With Colour and A New Caliber!
Last year in my article ‘Coloured Dials! The World Between Black & White‘ I ended my post in saying something that I would not be surprised if the watch industry in general, would bring us more...
View ArticleExclusive New Complication Revealed For Vacheron Constantin Grand Oeuvre
There are about one and a half billion ethnic Chinese on this planet. I didn’t take a census or anything, I just Googled it. Out of these one and a half billion Chinese people, I’d say that less than a...
View ArticleNaturally Sweet — The New Lange 1815 Watch In Honey Gold
I like yellow gold. I know this is not a popular choice by any means, but I’m not going to apologise for it or anything. There is something about the unabashed richness of the hue in question that I...
View ArticleAfter Hours: Part 1 – Erotica Automata
One of the secret episodes in the history of classic horology is the erotic watch: wearable tech — even wearable porn — that is centuries old. The watch with erotic scenes, at first static enamel or...
View ArticleThey Wear It Well: Anda Rowland, Vice Chairman of Anderson & Sheppard
In this series Revolution looks at some of the most charismatic watch wearers around. Profiling them, their personal style and what clothes they choose to wear and, of course, their watches. “After...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix MD
Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix’s Managing Director, talks to Revolution Switzerland’s Sophie Furley about why he left the company and came back, and how, with the help of a new owner and an amazing team,...
View ArticleRichard Mille Premieres New Material In Watchmaking — Again!
The Swiss purveyors of high-end, stratospherically priced timepieces clad in space-age materials — otherwise known as the good folks of team Richard Mille — have introduced the RM 011 in a new type of...
View ArticleAfter Hours: Part 1 – Erotica Automata
One of the secret episodes in the history of classic horology is the erotic watch: wearable tech — even wearable porn — that is centuries old. The watch with erotic scenes, at first static enamel or...
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