Browsing all posts in December, 2009.

Swiss watchmaking in November 2009 Marked improvement

November recorded the highest monthly value of the year for watch exports, and also the most moderate decline. Benefiting from a favorable base effect, the value of 1.4 billion francs represented a variation of -10.6% compared to November 2008. While negative, this rate is a marked improvement on previous months. The trough of the wave [...]

Blancpain Saint-Valentin 2010

For the first time in its history, Blancpain has created a special-shaped watch. The Manufacture in Le Brassus is presenting an authentic jeweler creation set with over 500 diamonds and pink sapphires, and housing the world’s smallest self-winding movement, Calibre 615. This extraordinary timepiece is to be issued in a symbolically limited edition of 14 [...]

Luvorene Watch for Ronnie Wood from Rolling Stone

Vincent Berard – Luvorene for Ronnie Wood from Rolling Stone. Rolling Stones guitarist and painter Ronnie Wood has taken delivery of a Luvorene I model personalised with the high art of watchmaking brand of Vincent Bérard in La Chaux-de-Fonds. A choice ambassador but by deliberate choice – the result of a meeting and reciprocal connivance [...]