In Geneva, during the show, on the phone, on the way back to Milan by train, live on Youtube... The question was always the same: 'What did you see at Watches and Wonders?
Almost needless to say, I have seen many interesting things.
Among the most original watches that have impressed me is the Hermès Arceau Le Temps Voyageur, which can be translated as 'travelling time'. A dreamy definition, perfect for a dial that, moving within the ring of time zones, indicates the time in each city of reference, in a virtual journey around the world. The movement of this particular world time was developed by Chronode, the same company that designs the mechanisms of the Cyrus Genève watches, under the same ownership. The main trend at Watches and Wonders 2022 was GMT models. Beginning with the Patek Philippe Calatrava Annual Calendar Travel Time, with a new movement, modified to unite the House's two reigning complications, not without new features. These include a system that allows the date display to update backwards when travelling westwards, in line with the local time change at the turn of midnight.
A real surprise is the new split-seconds GMT from Parmigiani Fleurier, a watch that is 'simply' ingenious, in which the hands of the two time zones are superimposed, just like the chronograph hands in a split-seconds chronograph, and split when a pusher is pressed, so that the lower one goes to indicate local time. When you return home, pressing a second pusher coaxial to the crown causes the GMT hand to disappear below the home time hand, becoming invisible to the eye.
This is my hot response, but on further reflection, I could mention many other protagonists: Cartier with its 84 new references, the Octo Finissimo Ultra by Bulgari, the Polaris Perpetual Calendar by Jaeger-LeCoultre, the Vacheron Constantin 222... Too many for this editorial. So, follow us in the magazine, on the website and on social networks to discover, one by one, all the novelties of Geneva 2022.
Dody Giussani
