With great complications centred on the mastery of elements, watchmakers are using the Watches & Wonders Geneva exhibition to showcase their ability to peer into the future. Finesse, precision and practicality, the master-watchmakers compete in their ingenuity to offer us ever better performing and record-breaking watches. Horology is a promise. A vision. A desire to project oneself into the intangible universe of time. Freed from its primary function —telling the time— the watch has evolved into a fantastical object, one which maintains its scientific dimension. In a world inherently uncertain, disrupted by geopolitical crises and anxieties related to climate change, this year contemporary horology reminds us of its soothing power and permanence: the belief in certain truths about the cou...

The zeitgeist is changing and becoming feminine... What happiness! This 29th edition of SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie) is placed under the sign of femininity, gems and jewelry. Amazed to go through the new collections of these watchmakers and discover in most distinguished feminine models, heightened with a jewelry appeal. The 2019 SIHH is feminine and bejeweled, a probably consequence of the repositioning of certain brands who have come to discover the purchasing power of women and their appeal for watches; provided they are beautiful, glamorous and bejeweled. Time is bejeweled; the bezels are adorned in rose gold and diamonds, mother-of-pearl, opal and other fine and precious stones invite themselves for a moment of softness and femininity. Time is inevitably a jewel w...