On the first day of Watches and Wonders, we began with Patek Philippe and ended it with concepts and all things calendar related. Patek Philippe nailed our prediction this year of a calendar innovation. 5330G, the manufacture’s first worldtimer with date synched up with local time, as reported yesterday. It’s possible that you remember us covering this watch, or a variation of it, last year. If you want to know more about this watch, we recommend reading that article. 5378/1R-001 first. In this case, however, we will use Ref. The majority of the world has missed the Ref.5330G-010, which was released in the past.
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Twenty4 will also be of interest to collectors, in celebration of its 25th birthday. These two models, which are part of an incredibly popular collection (quartz movements aside but that’s a personal preference), will become collectibles. Ref. This would be to misunderstand the potential of Ref. Golden Ellipse was one of those models that we always harped on for its potential. However, the bracelet has some problems. Those issues have been resolved. Watch for our next report on the subject (it’s all over the Internet so it can be found anywhere that you go to get your daily dose of horological information).
Watches and Wonders Geneva: Day 1 Highlights
As the watch fair approached, many watch journalists were weighing up a perplexing question. If you are a fan of creativity in watchmaking then this will have caused you to look up ambivalent on your dictionary. The question, of course, is not if we should share the news of the Vacheron Egerie The Pleats of Time conceptual watch. Finally, here it is. This watch is not the one you expected when you clicked on the header or image, but it’s the only concept watch that we have seen so far. We will reveal it now.
This is a watch that has a strong sense of watchmaking, and an accompanying scent (it’s also stylish as it refers to haute couture). The watch face itself is not treated with any chemicals or anything. Instead, the strap contains ampules that release Dominique Ropion’s signature scent. We are told that it all works as a response to the wearer’s movements and, once more, this is a concept watch. We confess though that we are taken by the idea of being able to sense time differently – in a completely novel way.
It was an old watch we had seen on our first day, but this will be the subject of its own story in due course. It’s a whole collection and we are sure that it will be featured on the WOW Festive cover story. This is the Parmigiani Fleurier Toric which we consider to be one of our top picks for Watches and Wonders, Geneva 2024. We reserve our highest praise in this fair story for the Toric Petite Seconde watch 40mm. The collection, which was the foundation of Parmigiani Fleurier’s success in 1996, is now available in only gold. This includes gold dials, gold cases and gold movements.
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