Franck Muller earns top billing among the wealthy
Feb 28, 2006
Franck Muller earned top honors as the most prestigious purveyor in the "ultra-luxury watches" market segment, as rated and ranked by America’s penta-millionaires (those with a household net worth of more than $5 million), according to a research firm that studies high-wealth individuals. Patek Phillipe placed second. Vacheron Constantin,....

Vacheron Constantin, Breguet Awarded Top 2005 Honors
Feb 01, 2006
"Year's Best” honors were awarded in the Swiss watch industry at the end of 2005.

Time: Revisionist History
Feb 01, 2006
Nicolas Hayek did something that every serious watch collector only fantasizes about: He ordered the reproduction of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s most coveted creation, the so-called Marie-Antoinette pocket watch. An acquaintance of the French queen, possibly her lover, commissioned the original timepiece, which, with every then-known complication....

Timepiece Trends for 2005 – From Basel and Geneva
Oct 03, 2005
Every spring means the unveiling of the newest product from the watchmakers of Switzerland . Basel and Geneva play host to the largest timepiece tradeshows in the world. Retailers from around the world descend upon these 2 shows in the hopes of seeing the latest in haute horologerie. Amongst the noticeable trends was the continuation of larger case sizes for....

The Breguet Tradition
Sep 15, 2005
What an act to follow. How do you follow in the footsteps of a man who has, in horological terms, done it all? Montres Breguet are quick to point out the answer, ‘… The remarkable heritage left by A-L. Breguet today offers the brand’s watchmaking craftsmen and designers a rare and extraordinary legitimacy in terms of ingenuity, vision....

EDITORIAL INDEX
Apr 08, 2005
Europa Star - The World's Most Influential Watch Magazine FEATURES 2004 A Abraham-Louis Breguet No. 266 p 18, 20 Academy of Independent Creators No. 263, p. 32; No. 265 p. 11 Accurist No. 264 p. 118; No. 266 p. 76; No. 267 p. 65; No. 268 p.72 Affluence No. 264 p. 169 Agat No. 263, p. 54 AHCI No. 266 p. 18, 33 Alain....

REINE DE NAPLES by Breguet
Jan 12, 2005
Lady’s 18 carat white gold watch equipped with an automatic movement. Engine-turned dial in silvered 18 carat gold, offset at 6 o’clock in a natural white mother-of-pearl face. Raised bezel set with 117 diamonds (approx. 0.99carats), crown set with a diamond (0.26carats), ‘fancy’ Breguet numerals, pear-cut diamond at 6....

Antiquorum Opens 30th Year with $4.4 Million Auction
Jun 01, 2004
Antiquorum opened its 30th year with a March 24 auction of important collector's wristwatches, pocket watches, and clocks that brought in $4,441,196. The sale was held in New York City at the Grand Havana Room. A number of timepieces went for double and even triple their presale estimates. The live Web broadcast on www.antiquorum.com was followed by more....

Time: One Hand Clapping
Aug 01, 2003
Like their retrograde cousins, wristwatch regulators are a modern development, credited mainly to German watchmaker Gerd-R. Lang of Chronoswiss, who unveiled the first regulator wristwatch in 1988. Although a handful of other brands, including Breguet and Dubey & Schaldenbrand, have produced regulator models, Chronoswiss has made the obscure form a....

Steel Patek Sets World Auction Record
Nov 13, 2001
The unique 1926 Patek Philippe watch--with single-button chronograph, vertical registers and pulsometer--was sold for $1,129,500 to a private Swiss museum. Another record was set with the sale for $$685,400 of a Breguet & Fils pocket non-gold chronometer with jumping hour hand, Peto cross escapement, and four-minute tourbillon regulator. The buyer....