Fans of luxury Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille would not hesitate when reaching for their wallet for a timepiece with a price tag over $100,000. What happens, then, when the brand’s artisan watchmakers take their mechanical know-how and apply it to another functional, heirloom collectible? This is what they’ve done with the new RMS05 fountain pen. A complex, visible movement within the pen’s barrel allows for …
One might not be surprised to learn that most technical advancements in watchmaking (and their subsequent application) occur regarding men’s pieces. This is true of many brands, including Swiss innovator Richard Mille—and yet, with their brand new RM 07-02 Pink Lady Sapphire Watch they’ve taken a technical advancement they introduced to men’s watches in 2012 and applied it in a grand, updated form for a …
In many ways, Swiss watchmaker Jaquet Droz’s Grande Seconde Quantieme Silver Côtes de Genève epitomizes the brand. At the watch’s core, there’s a proprietary Jaquet Droz 2660Q2, self-winding mechanical movement powering an off-center hours and minutes dial, and a large seconds subdial (fashioned in the brand’s signature figure eight). On the surface, however, there are refined flourishes aplenty: from the Côtes de Genève finish of …
