Swisswatches Magazine

Arthur Choquet, aged 23, stands on the stage of a marquee in a black suit and says: “I’m very proud – and feel encouraged to carry on!” The young man has just won the “Cartier Talents Horlogers de Demain Award”. He looks out at his fellow students and competitors, at the journalists and Cartier management in the audience, with an old farmhouse behind them that houses the ‘Mét...

The Slim d’Hermès is usually characterised by its understated design. However, to mark the opening of the new Hermès Maison at 166 New Bond Street in London, its dial this time features a richly detailed British scene. A carriage, wheels and reins take up almost the entire surface, whilst the tourbillon at 7 o’clock is seamlessly integrated into the scene, continuing its move...

While most people prefer to keep their distance from a nuclear reactor, Paneristi in particular can never get close enough to the object of their desire. Even when it comes to hafnium, worlds separate a nuclear facility from the new Submersible.

In a nuclear reactor, the objective is to capture free neutrons produced as a by-product of Nuclear fission in order to co...

For Blancpain’s Villeret, the question of the right size is not a new one – it is the oldest. It dates back more than four decades: in 1983, when much of the industry was turning to quartz watches, Blancpain made a conscious decision to do the opposite – to return to mechanical watchmaking. They did so with the smallest full calendar with moon phase of its time, which measure...

The first mechanical watch is more than just an object that reliably tells the time. There are watches that you wear simply because they’re there: they lie next to your keys in the morning, disappear beneath your cuff during the day, and are eventually replaced by something new. You don’t give them much thought, don’t associate any particular experience with them, and perhaps...