L’Heure H, the week’s watch news

Sailboats, prizewinners, French watches and a touch of vintage… It’s the best of the zeitgeist.

Sailboats, prizewinners, French watches and a touch of vintage… It’s the best of the zeitgeist.

Time for the Vendée Globe 2024
Some forty skippers set sail on the tenth edition of the famous non-stop, non-assisted, single-handed sailing race. With a watch on their wrist, of course.

Time for the Vendée Globe
Ulysse Nardin

The 11 best watches of 2024 crowned in Paris
With more than 120,000 voters, the Watch of the Year evening organized by watchmaking youtuber Frank sans C rewarded the eleven timepieces preferred by Internet users.

The winners of La Montre de l’année 2024.
MyWatch

The new MoonSwatch displays Moon phases and… Earth phases!
Swatch’s tribute watch to the Omega Speedmaster is once again making a splash with a watchmaking complication as special as it is spatial: the phases of the Earth as seen from the Moon.

Swatch Bioceramic MoonSwatch Mission to Earthphase
Swatch

Your (future) watch collection starts here
“Le Guide des montres vintage”, just published by Editions du Cherche-Midi, is a mine of horological information.

A complete guide to buying “well” without (necessarily) breaking the bank, for example with second-hand LIP models.
Éditions Le Cherche-Midi

Pierre Lannier creates the most French of watches
A new brand created by Pierre Lannier, 1977 incorporates 80% French components, from the movement to the hands.

The Alsatian family business has just launched the 1977 brand, certified Origine France garantie.
Judikael Hirel

Time at full speed
The great advantage of high-frequency movements? Greater precision, thanks to a higher oscillation frequency.

Franck Muller has designed the world’s fastest tourbillon.
Franck Muller

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