Watches and Wonders Geneva always makes me think how lucky the Swiss are to have a veritable legion of tourism officers in the form of watch enthusiasts. I am talking about folks like us at WOW Singapore and Luxuo, but also you, dear reader, and this has been true since way back before there was such a thing as this particular fair in Geneva. To be fair here (no pun intended), there is something magical and mysterious about Swiss time, and the answer always seems to be just beyond the heavily protected doors of the global watch fair, held now in Geneva.
It now seems certain that Watches and Wonders Geneva has taken the place of BaselWorld as the main international watch fair, and will only get bigger as the years march on. Already, there are multiple showcases happening around the city, in what is being hailed as Geneva Watch Week, unofficially. At the same time, Geneva Watch Days is still scheduled to run later this year, so the city has emerged as the proper international capital of watchmaking. For those of you who know anything about Geneva's present status and its history, this might seem fitting.
Just like last year, WOW Singapore was fully sponsored by all participating brands exhibiting at Watches and Wonders Geneva - there are no special coverage payback stories though. Generally speaking, as a watch specialist magazine, nothing gets us psyched up like a watch fair, so we are only too happy to cover Watches and Wonders Geneva. In fact, we have been doing just that online since the fair started, and have not really stopped. This story is also one of several in this issue covering the watch novelty exhibition, as well as the novelty debuts themselves; the TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph on the cover is also a Watches and Wonders debut.
STRUGGLING WITH TIME
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NEW FRONTIERS
The outgoing CEO of TAG Heuer Julien Tornare shares his management style and values. No doubt these will remain consistent in his new role as Hublot CEO, just as they were in his Zenith tenure
STRUCTURAL STYLE
Parmigiani Fleurier CEO Guido Terreni explains the logic of the new Toric collection and takes us through his thoughts on style and elegance
THE CONVERSATION: APROPOS COMPLICATIONS
A watch with complications appeals to different sorts of collectors, and is quite different to a complex watch. The editors of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand discuss the virtues of all sorts of complications and consider when more is really better...
EUREKA MOMENTS
Our extended look at gold in watchmaking comes to a close in this third and final part, with a look at five proprietary gold alloys. Of course, there are certainly more than five so we will leave the door ajar on going even further
MACHINE LEARNING
The mechanical calendar has been perfected over the last 100 years; it remains a challenge that invites multiple watchmaking and engineering approaches. We get into the nuts and bolts of how the perpetual calendar gets the job done
CULTURAL SENSE
The story of our calendar and why it is rife with anomalies
QUANTA OF TIME
Just as hours, minutes and seconds are quanta of time, so too are days, weeks, months and years. We finally explore the story of the perpetual calendar in particular, in a year that invites such ruminations
PURPLE REIGN
H. Moser Cie brings a brand new dial to the party with the Pioneer Perpetual Calendar Concept MD Purple Enamel Sincere Platinum Jubilee Edition
AUTUMN HUE
Grand Seiko continues its celebration of the 20th anniversary of Calibre 9R with the limited edition SBGA499
TWICE UPON A TIME
The world's greatest double tourbillon wristwatch, the Breguet Classique 5345 Quai de L'horloge is back, with new hand-finishing touches
