Gerald Genta Watch
Sep 07, 2005
Gerald Genta is owned by the Bulgari Group and is know for their avant garde designs. Gerald Genta manufactures four collections of timepieces: The Gerald Genta Arena Complications, The Arena Sport, The Octo, and the Solo Collections.The Genta Arena Complications Collection includes three models. The Grande Sonnerie is a combination minute repeater....

Gerald Genta Arena Complications Watch
Oct 28, 2007
The Gerald Genta Arena Complications collection personifies the unique design style of this brand. Gerald Genta has long been known for his cutting edge designs ever since he designed the legendary Royal Oak collection for Audemars Piguet in the 1970’s. This years Complications collection includes the Grande Sonnerie, the Perpetual GMT and the Tourbillon QP....

Fine Timepieces as Wedding Gifts
Jun 01, 2006
Over the past 10 years I have had many brides-to-be ask my opinion about which watch to buy their fiancé as a wedding gift. It seems that over the last few years watches have become an increasingly popular wedding gift for grooms-to-be. The best advice I am able to give is to buy your fiancé a watch he might have had his eye on, not the one you wish to see....

Watches: Complicated Identity
May 03, 2004
It has become a popular practice for watch brands to introduce complicated movements as a means of elevating their status—regardless of whether they have any real experience in this genre of watchmaking. Consequently, tourbillons are common fare in the Swiss arena these days, with many brands merely procuring the movements from outside....

Watches: Complicated Identity
May 03, 2004
For starters, the technical team at the Gerald Genta/Daniel Roth workshops in Le Sentier has designed and constructed the movement specifically for the watch, with everything expected in a high-quality tourbillon, including a light cage assembly (0.2 gram) and a balance wheel adjusted by poising screws. It is also reassuring that the movement is....

Watches: Complicated Identity
May 03, 2004
The new equipment and processes allow the small Gerald Genta/Daniel Roth workshops to function like a manufacture. Although Bulgari still has outside sources perform some specialty tasks and construct some parts, the critical design and construction is completed in-house. Only the most hairsplitting collectors could question the legitimacy of the....

AREBA CONTEMPORARY BI RETRO by Gérald Genta
Jul 23, 2004
Stainless steel case (36 mm and 38 mm) equipped with an automatic movement, jumping hour, retrograde minutes and date hands. Fabergé-style guilloché dial, blue alligator strap, water-resistant to 30 metres. www.gerald-genta.ch Source: April-May 2004 Issue (Please credit europastar.com)

FrontRunners: Teutonic Ingenieuring
Jul 01, 2005
The hardworking, technically obsessed Swiss-German watchmakers rarely steal the spotlight from their decadent Swiss-French rivals, but the relaunch of the Ingenieur watch from IWC (800.432. 9330, www.iwc.ch ) marks one such occasion. Developed in the white-coated culture of IWC’s watchmaking facility on the banks of the Rhine in Schaffhausen, the....

Acquisitions in 2000
Sep 01, 2000
Watch acquisitions and concentration in 2000: a year of a buying binge The Swatch Group acquires Jacquet-Droz Richemont acquires Les Manufactures Horlogères for 3,08 billion SFr The Swatch Group takes over watch hands producer Universo Rolex acquires Beyeler & Cie Richemont buys Stern, the dialmaker Gucci Group acquires Boucheron and the Yves....

Solo Bi Retro by Genta
Nov 01, 2003
Solo Bi Retro by GÉrald Genta Stainless steel case ( 34.5 mm) equipped with an automatic movement with jumping hour, retrograde minutes and date hands. Brushed steel dial, obsidian stone on black base, brown alligator strap with a mat faded effect, water-resistant to 30 metres. http://www.geraldgenta.com Contact: info@gerald-genta.ch (please....