Photo Gallery: Touring the Luxury Booths of SIHH 2014
The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), which took place last week in Geneva, is probably the world’s most exclusive international watch fair, with an invitation-only guest list. As we did last year, WatchTime wanted to give our readers and diehard watch fans a peek inside those hallowed halls of horology, courtesy of these exclusive photos by our own Mike Disher. Click below to begin the tour… A watchmaker demonstrates his skills at Audemars PiguetCartier, which introduced the most new products, fittingly had the largest booth.IWC designed its new, aquatic-themed booth to coincide with the release of its revamped Aquatimer line.A huge replica of its new Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna took center stage at A. Lange & S?hne’s booth.

Chimes and Birdsong: Jaquet Droz’s Bird Repeater
Jaquet Droz has channeled the spirit of its namesake, the 18th-century inventor renowned for his complicated automatons and musical clockworks �� many of them using singing birds �� with its new ultra-complicated timepiece, the Bird Repeater.The Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater, as with many other models from this artisanal watch brand owned by the Swatch Group, takes its inspiration from the creations of Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790), a Swiss-born watchmaker who is today better known for his pioneering work in animated robotic dolls, or automata, which he used to help sell his timepieces. The most famous of these �� called the Musician, the Writer, and the Draftsman �� are on display at the Museum of Art and History in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Jaquet-Droz also worked with animatronic birds, including them in many of his famous table clocks, pocketwatches, and music boxes; many of these can be seen today at Jaquet-Droz’s birthplace, the Sur le Pont farm in the watchmaking cradle of La Chaux

BEST FROM: watches-dealer & Friends November 8, 2013
Kicking off the second-last month of year, we review a couple of watches with interesting materials for cases - the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Ceramic diver and the Archimedes Pilot 42 Bronze. Next, we check out the top 10 most technically important electronic watches in history, find out why you should not look down on quartz watches, and learn more about the legendary?Fr��d��ric Piguet Caliber 1180.1. Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Diver Ceramic Watch ReviewCeramic is arguably one of the most popular exotic materials for watches right now. Rolex has long embraced this material for their watches - the latest Submariner and GMT Master watches feature ceramic bezels - while other brands like Panerai and IWC both have watches with ceramic cases. Audemars Piguet is no stranger to this material, but this year they launched an all ceramic dive watch. Check out our full review here.Source: watches-dealer2. Top Ten Technically Important Electronic WatchesIt can be argued that mech

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