Watches and Wonders 2023 Day 3 Highlights
We start Day 3 of Watches and Wonders 2023 with a priceless watch from Roger Dubuis before moving to Tudor and TAG Heuer.
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TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph 39mm
A day without fanfare at Watches and Wonders Geneva is as likely as a sunny January day in the Scottish highlands. So it is that our third day at the fair must begin with a watch that no one can buy, and for which there is no price: the Roger Dubuis Monovortex Split Seconds Chronograph. The watch is a wild one, packed with what we can only call brazen innovations, including a “vortex” tourbillon, which the marketing team tells us does not really qualify as a true tourbillon. It also leans into the gravity element of the story, as tourbillons do, with a special rotor called the turbo rotor. Roger Dubuis happily tells us that they wanted to be a bit silly, and thus the rotor ? being arranged perpendicularly to the movement ? finds itself in a disadvantageous position. The goal of this concept is to push boundaries into the realm of the cool ? hyper cool, one might say. This message, delivered during the product presentation, is a little at odds with the official position, but this will just join our list of questions for the future, as we note at the end. For now, we know that Roger Dubuis calls all this extravagance hyper horology, to distinguish it from vanilla haute horlogerie. It is even called Hyper Horology, with a “TM,...
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TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph 39mm
A day without fanfare at Watches and Wonders Geneva is as likely as a sunny January day in the Scottish highlands. So it is that our third day at the fair must begin with a watch that no one can buy, and for which there is no price: the Roger Dubuis Monovortex Split Seconds Chronograph. The watch is a wild one, packed with what we can only call brazen innovations, including a “vortex” tourbillon, which the marketing team tells us does not really qualify as a true tourbillon. It also leans into the gravity element of the story, as tourbillons do, with a special rotor called the turbo rotor. Roger Dubuis happily tells us that they wanted to be a bit silly, and thus the rotor ? being arranged perpendicularly to the movement ? finds itself in a disadvantageous position. The goal of this concept is to push boundaries into the realm of the cool ? hyper cool, one might say. This message, delivered during the product presentation, is a little at odds with the official position, but this will just join our list of questions for the future, as we note at the end. For now, we know that Roger Dubuis calls all this extravagance hyper horology, to distinguish it from vanilla haute horlogerie. It is even called Hyper Horology, with a “TM,...
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