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Audemars Piguet opens its horological museum

NEWS on June 24, 2020

After a brief delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the watchmaker is welcoming visitors to its spiral-shaped archive in Le Brassus.

Swatch chooses The Louvre for latest museum collaboration

NEW PRODUCTS NEWS on October 25, 2019

2018 saw the brand collaborate with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the ThyssenBornemisza museum in Madrid, and the Louvre marks its third such partnership.

IN PICTURES: Take a tour of the newly opened Junghans clock and watch museum

EDITOR'S CHOICE GALLERIES INTERNATIONAL NEWS on July 19, 2018

Junghans has opened a watch and clock museum that charts the company's history from making wooden clocks in the 18th

Margulies sells world’s finest Audemars Piguet collection

INTERNATIONAL NEWS UK on May 27, 2016

Marcus Margulies has sold his world-renowned collection of vintage Audemars Piguet watches having spent 27 years collecting the most significant

Longines single-pusher chrono opts for 24hr dial

NEW PRODUCTS Others on August 21, 2014

Longines has imbued its latest heritage model with an exclusive movement featuring a chronograph with single push-piece. The Longines Twenty-Four

Girard-Perregaux to support new LA movie museum

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Others on November 29, 2012

Girard-Perregaux has announced its position as the exclusive timekeeper and a founding supporter of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a new Los Angeles-based filmmaking museum set to open in 2016. The museum will be

Brand creates Swiss “hourglass” for the wrist

NEW PRODUCTS Others on June 1, 2012

Swiss-designed brand Partime has launched a timepiece that simultaneously shows, like an hourglass, elapsed time and the proportion remaining, something

Joux Valley watchmaking museum opens after upgrade

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Others on May 28, 2012

The Joux Valley Museum of Watchmaking (EHVJ) in Le Sentier has re-opened, eight months after it closed for a total

Breguet spends CHF7m on two antique timepieces

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Others on May 17, 2012

Luxury Swiss watch brand Breguet has acquired two of its antique pocket watches at auction, in a spending spree totalling