“Some old watches come with engraved dedications on their cases. It is occasionally possible to find out interesting stories and personalities behind these few words and digits …”
The new mini-documentary series starts January 5. Stay tuned!
“Some old watches come with engraved dedications on their cases. It is occasionally possible to find out interesting stories and personalities behind these few words and digits …”
The new mini-documentary series starts January 5. Stay tuned!
“Aiguille d’Or” Grand Prix: MB&F, Legacy Machine Sequential Evo
Ladies’ Watch
Prize: Parmigiani Fleurier, Tonda
PF Automatic
Ladies’
Complication Watch Prize: Hermès, Arceau
Le temps voyageur
Men’s Watch
Prize: Akrivia, Chronomètre
Contemporain II
Men’s
Complication Watch Prize: Hermès, Arceau Le temps
voyageur
Iconic Watch
Prize: TAG Heuer, Monaco X
Gulf
Tourbillon Watch
Prize: H. Moser & Cie, Pioneer
Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton
Calendar and
Astronomy Watch Prize: Krayon, Anywhere
Mechanical
Exception Watch Prize: Ferdinand Berthoud, FB
2RSM.2-1
The Swiss mountain guide, chemist and oxygen specialist Jürg Marmet wore this Rolex Ref. 6298 on his successful ascent of the Mount Everest on 23 May 1956. He was only the third human ever to reach the world’s highest peak. Part of the route that the Swiss team chose to climb Everest enabled them to simultaneously conquer the world’s fourth-highest mountain, Lhotse, for the first time.
This timepiece belongs to the Cartier ‘Paris Crash’ series released in 1991 as a tribute to the model produced by the brand’s London branch in the late 1960s. Jean-Jacques Cartier and the designer Rupert Emmerson were behind the creation of the original Crash. Estimate: CHF 120’000-180’000.
Only three examples of the Rolex Cosmograph Ref. 6263 'Paul Newman Lemon Dial' are known to exist. This is the oldest one, dating back to 1969, meaning that it predated some of the latest examples of the earlier 'pump pusher' Refs 6262 and 6264. Estimate: CHF 3,000,000-5,000,000.
ENGLISH (il testo italiano è sotto l'immagine)
"For the city – For swimming – For sports – For staff nurses”. This ad emphasised
that the Ciny catalog offered timepieces suitable for a wide range of
activities.
Do you like vintage watch ads? Please visit the page about Watch Ads,
my two-volume pictorial history of communication and design in 20th Century
watchmaking. You can also watch the video about the publication and
download a 20-page preview of Volume 1.
The vintage ads presented in this Blog are not featured in the Watch Ads books.
A contraction of ‘mechanical’ and ‘landscape’, this timepiece can be easily slipped into a jacket pocket thanks to its thickness of only 7 mm. It features a main hour counter, minute counter, second counter, second time zone with the representation of a world map in the heart of the GMT disc, and power reserve indicator. An anti-reflective sapphire crystal and a Grade 5 titanium case ensure a structure suitable for everyday life. The movement is the result of the brand’s collaboration with the Cercle des Horlogers, an independent Swiss watchmaking workshop.