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What is the common denominator between a round watch and a rectangular watch? The answer is symmetry. Whether one nurtures a preference for the circle or for the rigorous lines of the tonneau or barrel shape, symmetry is the name of the game: omnipresent and above all omnipotent, since the vast majority of designers cannot imagine sketching their plans without a clear-cut symmetrical axis.

Asymmetrical timepieces are thus by definition in a class of their own within the watch industry. One that is teetering on the brink of extinction? It would almost seem so… They are in any event zealously sought after by those who enjoy venturing off the beaten track.

Women and diamonds first!
Vacheron Constantin is one of the last remaining manufacturers still firmly attached to this type of design. The 1972 watch, which has been more or less continuously produced ever since its creation, features an extremely unconventional trapeze shape. The Maison now interprets it through no less than eight models. Its feminine versions play with two stretched hour-markers that significantly accentuate the imbalance of its case - a delightful specimen of finely controlled instability!

Ladies' watches are indeed more liable to inspire liberated geometrical interpretations than their masculine counterparts. One need only consider the Crash watch by Cartier, the archetypal asymmetrical model and a veritable icon of watchmaking creativity. There are two main reasons behind this feminine predominance: the potential afforded by the jewellery-type approach; and the unconventional use of the strap or bracelet as a natural extension of the case.

The playful game represented by the Cadenas watch by Van Cleef & Arpels also makes a clean break with any semblance of geometrical regularity. This 'padlock' model is graced with a wealth of intertwined curves entirely free of any symmetrical axis. It marries angular and rounded shapes within a creation providing ample proof that aesthetic harmony is entirely possible without symmetry.

Broken lines and the Sixties craze
The strength of these models lies in their enduring ability to hold their own within brand collections despite their atypical lines. Because apart from such standard production lines, concept watches provide scope for all manner of stylistic fantasies, including the most asymmetrical. DeWitt certainly demonstrated this in 2008 with its Concept Watch 1, an haute horlogerie UFO featuring a retractable tourbillon and a convex-concave case that remains unmatched in all its symmetry-free uniqueness.

Some artists have indeed become the champions of asymmetry, largely inspired by Gilbert Albert. Born in 1930 and a jeweller by training, he was appointed workshop manager at Patek Philippe in 1957 and created a collection specifically named "Les Asymetriques". His works have become rare and much sought after by collectors. Many of them bear the name of the brand distributor (such as Beyer), as was the custom at the time.

Gilbert Albert created many asymmetrical models, but one has attracted more attention than the rest. This is particularly so because its triangular shape is still widely used by Hamilton with its Ventura, the watch favoured by "The King", singer Elvis Presley, and its many variations such as the Pacer or the vertically oriented Thor. Hamilton was indeed one of the great advocates of asymmetrical watch with its resolutely Sixties-style models that are currently such a great hit among all those with a nostalgic longing for that particularly effervescent period.

Throughout the decade, a number of asymmetrical creations were born and have since inspired whole generations of designers, such as Girard-Perregaux with its "Casquette" style recently picked up by MB&F and also used by Jaz Derby and Amida. Amid the vintage revival wave currently sweeping the industry, one may safely assume that these asymmetrical nuggets will sooner or later resurface.

Selected among over 1,000 candidates, each laureate presented businesses that demonstrate creativity, financial sustainability and social impact. They win the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards trophy, one year of personalised coaching and US$20,000 of funding. The Laureates of the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards are chosen by an independent and voluntary Jury composed of entrepreneurs and business leaders.

- Laureate for Latin America: Bel Pesce, FazINOVA, Brazil.
Courses to encourage innovation and entrepreneurial values.
- Laureate for North America: Eleni Antoniadou, Transplants Without Donors, USA.
Artificial organs for transplants.
- Laureate for Europe: Carla Delfino, Imperial Europe, Italy.
Eco-friendly rodent repellent.
- Laureate for Sub-Saharan Africa: Achenyo Idachaba, MitiMeth, Nigeria.
Homewear and accessories woven from aquatic weeds.
- Laureate for Middle East and North Africa: Mariam Hazem, Reform Studio, Egypt.
Plastic bags upcycled into chic designs.
- Laureates for Asia-Pacific: Diana Jue & Jackie Stenson, Essmart Global, India.
Distribution of life-improving technologies to rural population.

'The Car tier Women's Initiative Awards recompense entrepreneurs whose spirit of community drives them to improve people's lives and livelihoods. They deserve our recognition for the innovation, passion and generosity they bring to business,' said Stanislas de Quercize, President & CEO, Cartier International.

Created in 2006 by Cartier and the Women's Forum for the Economy and
Society, in partnership with INSEAD business school and McKinsey & Co.,
the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards is an annual international business
plan competition for women entrepreneurs. Every year, six Laureates receive
US$20,000, coaching support for a full year, access to international networks
and media visibility and an exclusive trophy designed by Cartier.
To date, the competition has supported over 140 women leading 129 businesses across the globe.

The latest estimates and analyses by the Vontobel private bank show that it is important to offer lovers of fine watchmaking exceptional products rather than just try to increase volumes. In 2013 more than 1.2 billion timepieces were produced worldwide. But the 28 million units made in Switzerland alone account for over half of the turnover generated within the watchmaking industry, some 22 billion Swiss francs. The uninterrupted growth of major groups such as the Swatch Group and Richemont proves that high-end watchmaking is an expanding business, even though sales as a whole are slowly declining.

Worldtempus lists the ten biggest contributors to the Swiss watchmaking industry based on their 2013 sales.

1. Rolex. The brand with the crown remains the undisputed champion in the watchmaking world. Totally independent and not listed on the stock exchange, the prestigious brand is almost an exception in this top ten, along with Patek Philippe. Although the group is very discreet about its figures, the Vontobel report estimates that its sales in 2013 topped 4.3 billion Swiss francs.

2. Cartier. The French feather in the Richemont group's cap is also a heavyweight in the list and accounted for nearly 46% of the group's total watch sales in 2013. At 2.33 billion Swiss francs, its watch sales make it one of the biggest watch manufacturers.

3. Omega. The brand founded in 1848 and based today in Biel is hot on Cartier's heels. Straddling the Swatch Group's luxury and prestige segments, Omega makes a big contribution to the parent company's results. In 2013 it accounted for nearly 27% of the group's watch sales with a volume of 2.26 billion Swiss francs.

4. Longines. Fourth place goes to the oldest trademarked brand still in operation. The Swatch Group's outpost in Saint-Imier generated around 1.24 billion Swiss francs in turnover in 2013.

5. Patek Philippe. The second independent brand in this list celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. In the hands of the Stern family since 1932, the brand likes to remind us that it is one of the few manfactures that is still family owned. It produced 55,000 watches in 2013, which brought in 1.2 billion Swiss francs in revenue.

6. Tissot. More accessible to the general public than the brands further up in the table, Tissot aims to make watchmaking excellence affordable. It's a strategy that has paid off for this Swatch Group brand, which closed its 2013 financial year with a turnover of 1.06 billion francs.

7. TAG Heuer. The reference for luxury sports watches is the only representative from the LVMH group in this top ten. In 2013 its total sales amounted to 880 million Swiss francs.

8. Swatch. The emblematic plastic watch continues to appeal. Last year, over 12 million of them were sold worldwide. This astronomical figure puts the affordable brand in the top ten with a turnover of 770 million Swiss francs.

9. IWC. Known for its grand complications, this brand from the Richemont stable sold 760 million Swiss francs worth of timepieces in 2013.

10. Breguet. To seal its domination of the list, the Swatch Group takes the tenth place as well. The brand named after the inventor of the tourbillion had a turnover of 730 million Swiss francs in 2013.

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The top ten presented above reveals one champion: the Swatch Group, followed by Richemont, which continues to progress, and a discreet presence from LVMH through TAG Heuer. But two independent brands, including Rolex way ahead in first place, hold important spots in the list. Other independent brands such as Audemars Piguet are looking to stake their claim in the top ten, as are other Richemont brands, which could balance out the dominance of the Swatch Group in the future.

Asymetry
A nonconformist approach can also be precious. Witness the Crash watch by Cartier with its asymmetrical dial inherited from its pop-art origins, teamed with a delicate bracelet entirely paved with white gold drops. In a nod to the year of its birth, this legendary and highly selective watch is used in a limited numbered edition of just 67. A must-have.
 

Sensuality
Luxurious serenity and voluptuous pleasure : such are the emotions naturally aroused by the latest addition to the Limelight Gala collection by Piaget. The round case sublimated by two elegant elongated lugs set with diamonds, and the classically contemporary dial, makes a perfect match with the refined strap in black satin - a quintessentially sensual material. The very fabric of a gala queen.
 

Lizard
Iconic jewellery watch meets reptile leather. The new Baby- Graff range with its facetted case and sparkling dial comes in 4 flashy colours : white, red, blue and green. This quintessential watch for glittering evenings is adorned with a lizard skin strap, either in black or matching the gemstone colours, that wraps itself gracefully around the wrist of elegant ladies. Skin against skin.
 

Baroque
A merry breeze is blowing through the Tondo By Night collection, as de Grisogono offers a vibrant reinterpretation of its contemporary baroque style with eight models in summery colours that sparkle by day and night thanks to an unusual luminescent material. The strap made of galuchat - ornamented shagreen, a hide made from bony sharkskin or stingray leather covered with placoid scales ground down to create rounded pale protrusions - ideally enhances the radiance of the watch. Ideal for harpooning an oil magnate.
 

Happy birthday
The Chopard icon celebrates its 20th anniversary with the new Happy Sport Medium Automatic. Elegant, sophisticated and unwaveringly loyal to the original Happy Sport, it features a guilloche silver-toned dial making an ideal backdrop for the brilliant glow of its seven moving diamonds. Its 36 mm-diameter steel case is water-resistant to 30 metres and fitted with an elegant black alligator leather strap. Truly delectable.
 

La vie en rose
Its vibrant colour carries an aura of roses and violets. Lipstick pink is the star colour at Hermes in 2013. A fresh and flirty shade adopted by the Arceau Lipstick watch featuring a case inspired by the brand's cherished equestrian world. Available in steel with a matt white dial, this model is fitted with a Lipstick pink smooth calfskin strap adorned with tone-on-tone saddle stitching. Glamorous through and through.
 

Alongside a tendency towards grand complications and the use of hi-tech ceramics in sports/military inspired timepieces, the other major technical trend seen at the first big annual watchmaking rendezvous of 2013 was not purely horological - it was rather a combination of watchmaking expertise and exquisite artisanal skills. At the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie there were three particular brands that once again excelled in the creative craftsmanship department, contributing decisively to the celebration of the so-called Metiers d'Art with timepieces requiring hundreds of hours of decorative work or featuring dials that took several months to perfect.

The houses of Cartier, Vacheron Constantin and Van Cleef & Arpels have been investing hugely in areas ranging from enamelling to engraving and hiring the best contemporary artisans to create absolute masterpieces. They were the promoters of Metiers d'Art at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie - whereas among the myriad of solo exhibitions outside the Palexpo, Bovet showed a similar recognition towards decorative handwork of extraordinary dexterity.

Reviving heritage
The rare crafts known as Metiers d'Art in watchmaking lexicon were highly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but are being revived in two quite opposite ways: one involves industrialization with the use of machines to provide cheaper skeletonization and guillochage on the dials, for instance; while the other route is the traditional and only one worthy of the Metiers d'Art label, with high-end brands nurturing older craftsmen and forming new ones capable of perpetuating ancestral techniques that a mere decade ago seemed to be a dying breed… but whose future keeps getting brighter.

To keep such an expertise alive and in the front row of high-end watchmaking, Cartier and Vacheron Constantin have even created their own studios and become custodians of several disciplines. Other companies hire small ateliers and highly talented freelancers to exercise specific artistic skills on unique timepieces or limited editions. Moreover, there has been a wide range of Metiers d'Art featured lately on dials displaying the best of miniaturization - guillochage, marquetry, gem-setting, painting, sculpting and enamelling to name but a few, even though many other specialties may have vanished forever because somehow they were lost in… transition.
In the second part of this series of two articles we will follow four particular brands' novelties in Metiers d'Art.

Revue FH - 7 June 2012
The award ceremony of the Cartier Institute of Watchmaking Contest took place on 5 May at the Theâtre de L'heure bleue in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The theme of this 18th edition was to create an animation on the dial side of the 6497 movement, using the existing hand-setting system.

Six schools of watchmaking, eight watch industry apprenticeship centres and one private workshop rose to the challenge. The contest is open to all third-year students of schools of watchmaking and watch industry apprenticeship centres in Switzerland, to students of Lange Uhren GmbH and those undergoing their training in private workshops. This year's theme honed the creativity of the young apprentices, who submitted 83 projects for appraisal by members of the jury. The latter were five in number, all neutral and based outside the Institute but active in the world of watchmaking and the arts in Switzerland: Estelle Fallet, chief curator of the Museum of Art and History of Geneva, Andre Evrard, an artist based in Colombier, Jean-Marc Figols, chief instructor of apprentices at Patek Philippe in Plan-les-Ouates, Giulio Papi, Technical Director at Audemars Piguet (Renaud & Papi) in Le Locle, and finally Yves Piller, a Neuchâtel based clockmaker.

Eight prizes were awarded according to the following criteria: originality of design, quality of execution, functionality of the system and cleanliness of the movement. In the final analysis, Stefan Kuhn of Zeit Zentrum in Granges won the prize for the best all-round work with his «spider» movement. Mario Dunst, of the IWC International Watch Co, was awarded second prize with his «boat» movement and Lionel Moerch, of Joux Valley Technical College, came third. In addition Samuel Schmid, also of the Zeit Zentrum, received the prize for originality for his «caterpillar» calibre. Stefan Kuhn won a week's stay in New York. Students in the top seven places, together with Samuel Schmid, received a Cartier watch, while other participants were presented with a Cartier book.
The contest's rules made the following stipulations: all apprentices worked on the base of the 6497-1 movement; all components linked to the development of the 2012 theme were produced by the participants; they were allowed to use both sides of the calibre (bars and bottom plate); the movement was required to operate before and after carrying out the time-setting function; the time allowed was 32 hours, spread over two weeks (excluding cleaning and assembly of the movement), and lastly, the participants were required to submit a work log describing the operations carried out.

WORLDTEMPUS - 2 February 2011

While the Salon International de Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) remains the catalyst, it is certainly the ingenuity of the entire Swiss industry that has propelled the third week of January to a new status, one that is fast approaching the dimensions of Baselworld - if not quite in quantity, then certainly in quality.
While the SIHH organizers may not exactly be pleased, they cannot deny that the qualitatively excellent Geneva Time Exhibition (GTE) has added a new level of depth to the week. With the SIHH focused on big brand activity, GTE kept an eye on independent makers of every size and shape. One element doubtlessly characterized both shows: the extreme creativity that was on display.

Some independents continued to display their products in hotels along the Quai des Bergues. These boutique brands like Urwerk and MB&F once again impressed with their high standards, extreme professionalism, and creative new timepieces. Perhaps an aside to the "hotel" exhibitions is the fact that several big brands who also inhabit large booths at Baselworld have begun to "invade" the city, now vying for watch week visitors' attention. Maybe it is not such a coincidence that most of them belong to the same group…
The "trend" that has mainly crystallized combines a "return" to classic values, retro elegance, and a newer feel for wearable creativity than has been evident in the last five years. Even the independents at GTE were professing much of the same (see GTE Superwatch second-place finisher Ressence with a modern take on elegant innovation, for example). Almost every exhibitor at SIHH had a tame, yet innovative, version of "time only" to show - and post-SIHH voices seem to be going wild for it. Aside from standout Jaeger-LeCoultre's absolutely gorgeous slim anniversary Reverso models, others combining wearability, innovation, and a decent price for a collector's watch certainly included Audemars Piguet with the Millenary 4101 (at $20,600 in steel a wonderful introductory AP piece) and Ralph Lauren with the Slim Classique Square, only 27 mm in diameter (does this mark the return of the "gentlemen's watch"?), and coming in at $15,200 for white gold with beautiful guilloche work.

My final day of this exhausting, exhilarating whirlwind of a fair - a literal whirlwind actually, thanks to the bise noir that began blowing on Thursday - ended on an interesting note as I was invited to casually partake of the quintessentially Swiss fondue and a few glasses of good wine. I laughed and dined with 30 or so of some of the Swiss industry's most creative minds - marveling at the extreme IQ numbers seated all around me, having a good time themselves - among them Carole Forestier-Kasapi (Cartier's head of high watchmaking), Giulio Papi (APRP), Jean-Marc Wiederrecht (Agenhor), David Candaux (Jaeger-LeCoutre), and Eric Giroud (designer par excellence). It was obvious all were shaking off the week's stress, happy to celebrate relief and success with good friends. Just then the gentleman sitting to my left asked me how I would sum up what I had seen over the course of the week in one sentence. Though I was loathe to even think about one more watch, the answer came to me in a flash - as if I had already thought of it. And perhaps I had, for the week was so intellectually stimulating that I could barely sleep. I turned to him and smiled. "Innovative creativity with a touch of optimism," I blurted. And we all laughed, not because it was funny, but because I had spontaneously hit the nail on the head. Just as they all had, too.

The Calibre de Cartier flying tourbillon timepiece immediately makes its mark as a watch of character. The XII numeral on the dial is enlarged, making it the powerful aesthetic signature of this new creation from the Cartier Manufacture.
Powerful, robust, and refined, this version of the Calibre de Cartier watch is equipped with an exceptional flying tourbillon: the calibre 9452 MC with the Geneva Seal. The mechanical Manufacture movement with manual winding contains 142 components including 19 jewels. It is driven by the flying tourbillon whose C-shaped carriage indicates the seconds. With a thickness of 4.5 mm and a diameter of 10 ¾ lines, this calibre beats at a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour and has a power reserve of 50 hours.
Whereas a traditional tourbillon carriage is carefully protected between the bridges and main plate, the flying tourbillon of the Calibre de Cartier watch has been designed to enhance its visual appeal. It almost seems to float on the bridges, as if hovering weightlessly above the dial, which gives it greater exposure to shocks that could disturb its operation. This aesthetic choice is technically risky and requires the master watchmakers to pay particular attention to the design of the tourbillon carriage to ensure that it benefits from the same level of shock resistance as a traditional tourbillon.