The elegant, streamlined form, innovative indications, and ergonomic functions of Chapter One belie the incredible complexity of its unique movement...
Ben has become one of the greatest sailors being the second most decorated sailor at the Olympics ever. Only 31 years old, Ben Ainslie has already collected major records. This unique sportsman is the two-time ISAF World Sailor of the Year, adding this new gold medal to three existing Olympic medals. An impressive collection that includes also many World Championship titles.
The AMVOX2 DBS Transponder is a fusion of traditional watchmaking expertise and high-tech engineering. Crafted exclusively for owners of the Aston Martin DBS, the AMVOX2 DBS Transponder is a collaboration that demonstrates the design and engineering affinity between these two long-established companies, both leaders in their respective fields and partners since 2004.
Square-shaped wristwatches are not new: Tissot launched its first, the celebrated Tissot Automatic, back in the early 1940s. Before that, the Swiss watchmaker was famous for its square-faced Tissot Hermetic travel and bag watches, all the rage in the Roaring 20s. The Quadrato series carries on this proud Tissot tradition, incorporating respect for the design sensibilities and savoir-faire of the past with a full mastery of avant-garde engineering and aesthetics in the present.
CORUM is proud to announce that Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is the 2008 winner of THE GLOBAL BRAND ICON™ OF THE YEAR AWARD supported by the Swiss Watchmaking Brand. He is the second person to win this honor as the inaugural award was won in 2007 by Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize later that year. Jimmy Wales received a CORUM watch - the Romvlvs Dual Time in red gold - as a distinguished award at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore on August 14.
Jaeger-LeCoultre hosts a charity party during the Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup at the International Polo Tournament of Sotogrande. ever the five Squadra ambassadors, joined forces in an exhibition match that helped to raise 16,000 Euros, representing an essential contribution to the work of the “Nuevo Futuro” association.
Jaeger-LeCoultre could not have hoped to choose a finer ambassador for a new partnership than the 27 year-old currently considered as the “little prince of polo”: Juan Martín Nero, or “Juanma” as he is known among friends. Driven by a wish to establish ever closer ties with the world of polo, Jaeger-LeCoultre has decided to support this talented young player from Argentina who is proving fully worthy of his elders, and to thereby broaden its team of professional players.
Steven Holtzman, founder of Maîtres du Temps, was accompanied on the Asia tour by legendary watchmaker Mr. Roger Dubuis, one of three master watchmakers behind the creation of Chapter One. The Asian series of presentations of Chapter One—the inaugural timepiece by Maîtres du Temps—began in Hong Kong and continued on to Taipei, Singapore, Shanghai and Beijing.