We are happy to share with you the evolution of a fine timepiece first seen last year, but one that needed some kind of re-tweak in order to enhance it to the level it deserved.

This watch now comes with a semi-opened dial and the indexes really stand out, giving more of a sense of three-dimension and it actually modernises it radically.

Today, we are coming with a new video in our Unboxing series and for this one we have the pleasure of discovering the winner of the Mechanical Exception Watch Prize at the 2019 GPHG (Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève) The GNS 1.2 by Genus.

In today’s video we had the great opportunity of visiting the pretty surprising workshop of Laurent Jolliet, the last chain maker still in business here in Switzerland, crafting bracelets by hand and we got to find out how Milanese bracelets were made. There is unfortunately a lot at stake, since this craft is no longer being taught an unfortunately we could well lose this expertise if no one takes over.

As the consumer behavior and the industry is being hit by major shake-ups as an effect of Covid-19, this is a seminal PRIMETIME edition. The double digit number we all marked with a red pen in our horological calendar for April was -82%. When the world pulled the OFF-switch for Swiss watch exports marking serious repercussions for the industry, we consider how much the Horological ecosystem is susceptible to damage.

We present a first look at the two pieces of this project, and the natural conclusion is one of complementing design and a perfect juxtaposition of what has so far been exclusive features and brand signifiers, what were they waiting for?

As if our interview with Zenith CEO Julien Tornare last week wasn’t enough with the presentation of two superb new models from the Maison, here is their tough micro-blasted titanium tool watch with a colourful twist worth your viewing time.

Only a few years after its launch, Czapek is coming once again with not only a full new design but also a new movement encased in this Antarctique set of timepieces, a steel sport-chic 3-hander with integrated bracelet.

We had the pleasure of having Julien Tornare, CEO of Zenith Watches, who dropped by our Geneva Club to talk to us about two new timepieces introduced by the brand of Le Locle. The first one is the Chronomaster Revival Shadow, a very cool watch housing the famous El Primero mouvement in black sandblasted 37mm case made out of titanium with black and grey dial and sub-dials.

In this third and final episode, you will discover what it takes to make a hairspring and balance wheel by hand, mixing traditional know-how with the knowledge of today, before the final assembly of this amazing timepiece. And very importantly the emotion shared by the team after the watch's first tick-tocking!

And here we go for the second part of our documentary approach following the making of Greubel Forsey's Hand Made 1 timepiece. In this video you will see more in details how some of the key components of this watch have been developed and manufactured by hand, such as screws, hands, case and the tools used to achieve this.

We are extremely happy to share with you a behind the scene journey into the making of Grebeul Forsey's Hand Made 1 timepiece. This project not only pays tribute to the very origin of mechanical watchmaking when the hand was the most precious tool used, but also achieving a spectacular end result in terms of performance and level of precision corresponding to today's standards.

Meet Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey, founders of the brand, and all the team behind this amazing project, discover their motivation, the challenges encountered and the solutions found.

In today's video, we present you the latest timepiece in Roger Dubuis' Excalibur Collection, the Excalibur Twofold. It features the brands characteristic double flying tourbillon and introduces three pretty cool innovations: a white composite material never used in haute horlogerie before called Mineral Composite Fiber (MCF), luminescent angles on the mouvement’s bridges thanks to a specific use of superluminova as well as a luminescent strap.

Here is another video with our good friend Suzanne Wong, Editor-in-Chief of Worldtempus, presenting you the new watches that were supposed to be presented during the two main watch shows of Baselworld and SIHH / Watches & Wonder. Today we focus on Ulysse Nardin lastest releases, two new Freak X models called Ice and Magma

In the current context, we are unboxing today a rather playful timepiece with the Fastback GT Drift Elise by young brand Gorilla. This watch displays time with a cool satellite mechanism, something seen before naturally, but not necessarily at this price point. Though the movement is a pretty standard ETA 2824-2, the satellite module has been specifically developed for this watch by Vaucher, a pretty serious player when it comes to movement development and manufacturing.

In today’s PRIMETIME we will go over some other newsworthy stories of the industry. Naturally this includes a follow up on the Baselworld situation because as predicted it didn’t take long for the LVMH brands, Hublot, TAG Heuer, Bulgari and Zenith to announce their departure from the show.

We will also discuss new product launches as activity is slowly starting again here in Switzerland, but very gently as we don’t want to simply cover these new watches without seeing them in the flesh, proving again the necessity of these physical shows.

Today we focus on some of really nice new timepieces introduced by De Bethune, a trilogy of DB28 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the collection, with three extra-thin models, including one tourbillon version.

The French language has its logic of its own, meaning a very questionable one and we are used to hearing sometimes pretty amusing interpretation of our favourite watch brand names. Just a few days before our local lockdown we went on the streets of Geneva to check this out and with this video hopefully come up with a simple and fun way of hearing how this is properly said!

Feels good to see these images of plenty of people on the streets and though it's only a few weeks back, this seems almost like an eternity.

This is the first video of what we hope to be a long series with our good friend Suzanne Wong, Editor-in-Chief of Worldtempus, and we will cover as much as possible the new watches that were supposed to be presented during the two main watch shows of Baselworld and SIHH / Watches & Wonder.

Today we focus on some of these new timepieces introduced by De Bethune and we already know that there will be more from them, but already a good start with new versions of the DB25 Starry Varius as well as a DB28 Kind of Blue.

Ok maybe "checkmate" is a bit harsh at this stage but seriously what else could happen as Patek Philippe, Rolex, Tudor, Chopard and Chanel decided to pull out of Baselworld and will most certainly drain a few other major players in their footsteps. And all this to create a new show in Geneva, which will occur at the same dates as Watches & Wonder in April of 2021 and this represents a life saver for what was known as the SIHH.

In today’s PRIMETIME we go over the latest newsworthy stories of the industry and as you can expect there are a few less product launches than what we are generally accustomed to, but this doesn't mean that there aren't any interesting developments linked with the current situation.