FOUR POINTS
WOW Singapore|Issue 72
The tourbillon comes to the Defy Skyline collection in an entirely new reference with a strong visual presence
KEN KE
FOUR POINTS

You will be well within your rights to expect that this here ticker made its debut at the LVMH Watch Week in Miami and yet somehow, it was not. After the watchmakers got done celebrating the Lunar New Year, they seemingly gave the communications team the nod to push out the presser on the Defy Skyline Tourbillon. The watch has not yet been presented in the metal, although the WOW teams heading to Geneva are looking forward to resolving this during the big show. Given that this is the first tourbillon movement in the Skyline range, it is certainly newsworthy, even if it might be upstaged in Geneva…

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