Exceptional watches
This new enriched edition offers 240 pages and 3.5 kilos devoted to the rarest watches that exist, whether in terms of value or symbolically. With a quarter of a century of experience in the field, the journalist Paul Miquel immerses you in large format in exceptional timepieces, through three main sections: auction records, fine watchmaking pieces and hero watches. Whether you are an expert or a boeotian, you can spend hours reading and rereading this reference book, with the measurements made for the coffee tables. A great opportunity to revise for aesthetes, and to get caught up in the game for novices, while the watch collection has never been so fashionable and auction houses are setting records forauction.
Rare watches, Grund editions, € 69
Art Deco anniversary
This year, Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrated with great fanfare the 90th anniversary of one of its most iconic models, the Reveso.
A piece with a reversible case in the purest Art Deco style, imagined in 1931 and to which the brand has just devoted a vast exhibition in the heart of Paris.
Extend this anniversary over the 200 pages of this large
Reverso
book
(Ed. Assouline, 195 €), between original photos and texts by watchmaking specialist Nicholas Foulkes.
A complete book retracing both nine decades of the Reverso development and the history of a dozen owners who have personalized their watches.
A few kilos of watches at the foot of the tree.
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Annual sum
As the lifestyle shopping site Mr Porter celebrates its tenth anniversary with models signed by ten major watchmaking houses, take the opportunity to treat yourself to
The Watch Annual,
a community project that brings together in one place the best of new watches from the world. 'year. For this second delivery, Justin Hast and James Allen have brought together more than 80 international contributors over 236 pages retracing the watchmaking vintage. This special edition for Mr Porter (290 € on www.mrporter.com) also includes a signed print of "the watch of the year" by Canadian artist Julie Kraulis.
The year of the whirlwind
Did you know ?
In 2021, we are celebrating the 220th anniversary of the invention of the tourbillon by the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the brand of the same name.
To pay tribute to him, GMT Publishing asked 12 journalists and experts to write
The Millennium Watch Book - Tourbillons
(182 €, to be ordered on www.the-watch-book.com).
A true ultimate synthesis on the subject retracing the history and evolution of this fine watchmaking complication, including the patents filed, the main players, today's tourbillons, and even the second-hand market analyzed. .
With ten chapters and more than 700 photos, this XXL-sized book also looks at the 50 essential tourbillon watches ...
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Watch heroes
Good news: the world of the watch press is expanding with the publication of a new quarterly magazine called
Montre Heroes (€ 7.90;
www.heroeskiosk.fr
)
. This half-brother of the Auto Heroes and Moto Heroes lifestyle titles edited by Philippe Abreu is a new lifestyle concept magazine dedicated to watchmaking. Contents of this first issue of 196 pages, available on newsstands and in digital version: the legend of Omega's Speedmaster (and that of George Clooney), the aerial saga of Bell & Ross, the secrets of TAG Heuer's Monaco , from Chanel, Ressence or Beaubleu, Or a meeting with François Moreau, founder of Reservoir. James Bond watches. An extremely rich summary for an extremely chic magazine,to collect without moderation.