Six months after the first interview, I am proud to bring to the pages of Perpetual Passion a new chat together with Andy Zhang, Client Director of A. Lange & Söhne for the Asia-Pacific area. Regardless of his role in the world of watchmaking, Andy is a true watch enthusiast who likes to argue with people who have the same passion as him. https://www.youtube. [...]
Guest of this episode Marcello De Marco - Watch Specialist for the renowned auction house Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo. Matteo and Vittorio spoke with Marcello about the results of the auctions staged this weekend: The Geneva Watch Auction XII and Retrospetive 2000 - 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DElVoC7XQs Marcello De Marco is first of all a great enthusiast. P [...]
"Are you going to find new ambassadors who come from different backgrounds than the world of sport or cinema?" This question closed my interview with Peter Harrison (CEO of Richard Mille EMEA) published last May 2020. After almost twenty years spent revolutionizing the world of watchmaking, making it possible to use watches in highly risky situations [.. .]
Roger Dubuis is a brand that intrigues and fascinates me. It is useless to hide it from you, I love technologically advanced watches, with an attractive design, which show off all the technical savoir faire of the maison that produce them. Roger Dubuis undoubtedly possesses these characteristics and thanks to the possibility of being able to visit the manufacture of the brand in that of Meyrin, [...]
What is a Richard Mille? If an enthusiast were to answer this question using only one watch to talk about this brand, in all likelihood he would choose one of the versions of the RM 27, namely the models dedicated to tennis player Rafa Nadal. Since 2010, the year of presentation of the reference RM 027, this collection has been able to constantly surpass itself and always move p [...]
Phillips in collaboration with Bacs & Russo, finally dissolve the reserves and unveil some of the watches that we will be able to find in the catalog of the next auction "The Geneva Watch Auction XII" which will take place in Geneva from 6 to 7 November, at the Hotel la Rèserve . At this event Phillips has also added "Restrospective: 2000-2020", a thematic auction curated by Phillips with Blackbird, [...]
As per tradition, the spotlight is on one of the most important events in the world of watchmaking, we are talking about the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve (GPHG), now in its 20th edition. 84 watches are pre-selected by the GPHG Academy, divided into 14 categories, in the race to win the title of best watch of the year in one of the 18 prizes, including 'A [...]
It is always fascinating to admire the watch on the wrist of important personalities. The watch tells a lot about us and the wearer. Certainly, without going into the character and personal aspects of the owner, he could tell us if we are dealing with a simple person with a more or less important watch on his wrist, or a lover. The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is our [...]
If we had already introduced the new Tag Heuer Connected on these pages thanks to the diligent piece of Domenico Sposato, we could not say that we had tried it on the field. And here we are talking about the golf course, because the best of the Connected collection is the Golf Edition. A champion of technology, tested for us by a champion of golf technique like Edoardo Molinari, who hosted us on the [...]