Lately there have been many watch exhibitions and fairs all around the world. I personally have traveled to quite a few, but however beautiful, impressive and big they may be there?s pretty much nothing like SIHH and Baselworld in terms of new watch releases; and the way this year has started was far from disappointing! Every day I saw something new, and not just new material variations but actual novelties, from almost all of the brands exhibiting.
To start of with I?m going to tell you what?s new at the ?big boy? booths. First up ? Audemars Piguet and their new Concept watch that takes my vote for the ?Most Awesome Watch? award, which I just invented myself It features a tourbillon, a chronograph, and a minute repeater; with one of the loudest and beautiful chimes I?ve ever heard. It?s no secret that AP loves their complications as much as the more popular Royal Oaks and Offshores but with the peripheral rotor tourbillon presented earlier last year, and now a minute repeater they are taking it to a whole new level of high horology. Audemars Piguet SIHH 2015 Concept Watch
Two more brands that really got to me were Montblanc and Jaeger-LeCoultre, especially with their higher end complications. While JLC presents a new version of the spherotourbillon with their twist on a moon phase, Montblanc comes up with their latest addition to the Villeret family ? the Tourbillon Cylindrique Geospheres Vasco da Gama. Long name and an even longer explanation of the complications, but i...