New Release
This initial report from BaselWorld 2015 by small-luxury-world, featuring contributions from Magnus and Oliver, provides an essential first look at key new releases and industry developments. It serves as a valuable historical record, capturing the immediate impressions and significant announcements from a major watch fair.
Please have a look in alphabetical order, to get an idea about what is coming …
25 years (1990-2015) of World Time Watches with indication of different time zones by Andersen Genève. The Tempus Terrae is the 5 th Limited Edition World Time Watch offered to watch collectors.
Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe, a new iteration with a matt-finished RG case L-evolution collection - Blancpain reunites once again a tourbillon with a carrousel in a new tuned form factor. Villeret collection - Blancpain and les Métiers d’Art , a highly successful concept in this market segment.
10 years Tradition collection – time to mature, and for this anniversary it really shows: A highly unusual and original minute repeater with fusée for activation, vertically acting hammers, and a main gong shaped like a ‚B’ (for Breguet), complemented with an mysterious lateral automatic winding system. The Chronographe Indépendant – another Breguet which takes its inspiration from the past. The shocking news: no column wheel, instead we find a rocker. The system is conceptually closer to a cam/
The brand moves deeper and deeper into true manufacture terrain – this year we were pleased to see they have their first in-house time-only automatic movement, called Cal. B35, ready. 70h of power reserve – this is certainly not a run-of-the-mill solution. It came in the Galactic Unitime SleekT , albeit with a solid back (as it is tradition with Breitling). We are trying to extract more information from them... Another new movement: The Cal. B14 now offers a hand-wound monopusher option, present
DeBethune took a rather slow approach and presented refinements on the collection. The DBS Tourbillon , marvelous with luscious hands, and the DB25 Quetzalcoatl. Its dial left us a bit sold to tell the truth.
Fabergé is maker to watch from now on seriously : They pledged to revamp their entire watch collection all based on in-house movements! First and most remarkable one is a ladies’s watch driven by a retrograde hand-wound movement created by Jean-Marc Wiederrecht: Wiederrecht got totally free hand in doing so – with very clever solutions to appreciate. Wonderful, and more is to come! The men’s collection features this flying tourbillon (by Guilio Papi) – very architectural, with guilloched movemen
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