Tag Archives: watches

Special Report of GTE Award 2011: Helios by Frederic Jouvenot

We had talked Jouvenot watches and history of the Creation of Helios, discovering that while writing this timepiece had won the Grand Prix of GTE 2011 and we had promised you more.

A so smart innovation by Baume&Mercier SIHH2011

This morning at 9:30, Miss VIP was among the invited bloggers selected to attend a preview at the press conference Baume et Mercier, live, the SIHH 2011.

Opening today at the Geneva Time Exhibition

This show, which includes sixty brand exhibitors at the International Conference Centre, Geneva, 17 rue de Varembé, opens this Sunday, January 16.

Before the SIHH: Jaeger Le Coultre and very special editions

We continue this walk through the major watch brands, which we must not forget that Geneva will also host the Time Exhibition, as these two sectors are complementary in Watches High End Watchmaker for all lovers of this area if resourceful and productive.

We chose Jaeger Le Coultre for this third section.

The news of this mark for the SIHH really deserves to spend a little time.

Exhibition at the Beau Rivage Lots Sotheby’s in Fine Watches

A sale covering the period 1620 to 2005

Beyond that can delight any amateur experience of rare coins, watches precision, emphasis was also placed on pieces celebrating the history of mechanics, the Fine Watches Swiss and French, English, Dutch. .. Here are some previews:

 

A new promising watchmaker: Manufacture Royale.


If a clock proves a watchmaker, a palace announcement if an architect, how the universe does indeed show he not a Supreme Intelligence?

Francois Marie Arouet called Voltaire

When Voltaire arrives at Ferney, he realized long ago that philosophy, technique and transmission of knowledge was linked.

End of 2010: what are the 2011 prospects?

Hong-Kong

2010 ended with fireworks in the whole world, our media circling the festivities, the record is done.

We needed to VIP‘s Blog outlines the prospects for 2011.

Portrait of Michael Bittel’s imagination through his watch creations

above-cons,image illustration from Liberation.fr

Our partner Michael Bittel has already been featured in

VIP Magazine but here we will put a light on the designer of Engineering in a very dreamlike aesthetic.

A new record in Geneva Auction for a Patek Philippe

Found in idexonline.com

” Watch Sales in 2010 Break Records at Christie’s

 

(December 21, ’10, 5:41 IDEX Online Staff Reporter)

The Patek Philippe watch that sold for $5.7 million at Christie’s
(IDEX Online News) – Christie’s International ended a record-breaking year for fine and rare watches that realized $91.2 million in total sales, the highest annual total ever achieved for watches at the auction house. The top selling watch this year was a Patek Philippe Reference 1527 manufactured in 1943 that sold for a record $5.7 million at Christie’s Geneva.

Exhibition event Bulgari Paris December 10 to January 11: 125 years of magnificence

After the first success in Rome, Paris now for Bulgari, the prestigious Grand Palais, a retrospective of Italian Master in Fine Jewelry, we were welcomed.

A real work of history, an overview of techniques and influences on exceptional jewels, worn by actual celebrities: Sophia Loren,

 

Elysabeth Taylor etc…