2024-03-22 23:00:01
There’s plenty to catch up on this week, from Only Watch news to exclusive interviews and exciting new launches. Find out what you missed in our special weekly roundup
Editorial – Only Watch could make a return this spring
To start the week, our editorial director Sophie Furley announced the news that went around the Internet: Only Watch has emerged from these last tumultuous months marked by an audit and announced its return for May 10. WorldTempus spoke with Luc Pettavino, founder and organizer of Only Watch, and Tess Pettavino, director of the Monegasque Association Against Myopathies, to learn more.
Couverture d’Only Watch © Only Watch
Time to care for others: Omega and the Orbis flying eye hospital
Speaking of charities and good causes, in this new series WorldTempus takes a closer look at a different aspect of watchmaking, where watches can also create change. First episode: Omega’s collaboration with the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, an organization that helps people suffering from vision loss around the world. Read more here.
Orbis Flying Eye Hospital © Omega
The answer to everything
Blancpain has just launched a new Fifty Fathoms model, in two versatile versions. Our editor Suzane Wong believes it’s the answer to everything. Click here to find out why.
Fifty Fathoms Automatique 42mm © Blancpain
Franziska Gsell-Etterlin: “Schaffhausen is our home”
Next, Sophie had the pleasure of speaking with Franziska Gsell-Etterlin, Managing Director Marketing of IWC Schaffhausen, to gain insight into the world of the brand in the run-up to Watches and Wonders. Check out the entire conversation here.
Director general marketing Franziska Gsell-Etterlin © IWC Schaffhausen
The double jubilee of Aerospace
This year Breitling celebrates its 140th anniversary, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first trip around the world in a balloon. To mark these important milestones, Breitling is unveiling a special edition featuring an authentic piece of the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon canopy.
Aerospace B70 Orbiter © Breitling
Maurice Lacroix: the beautiful black woman
Speaking of new launches, Maurice Lacroix announces its second collaboration with the Geneva design studio Label Noir. This limited edition, audacious, skeletonized Masterpiece poses certain risks for the watchmaker based in Saignelégier. You will know why here.
Masterpiece Skeleton Label Noir © Maurice Lacroix
Team test: WorldTempus x Claude Meylan
The editorial team tested Claude Meylan’s Fenêtre sur Temps. Find out what our journalists thought in this review where they pass the watch around and you’ll get not one, but five different points of view.
Fenêtre Sur Temps by Claude Meylan © Sophie Furley / WorldTempus
New launches
Last but not least, apart from the Blancpain Fifthy Fathoms, the Breitling Aerospace B70 Orbiter and the Maurice Lacroix x Label Noir, we have for the new launches of the week: the Carl F. Bucherer Heritage BiCompax Annual, the Chopard Happy Sport Rose de Caroline , the Jaquet Droz Tourbillon Skelet Sapphire Opal, the Kross Studo KS 05 Titanium Moss Agate and the MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT Onyx.
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