Opera And Manufacture Royale: Performance Art At The Highest Level
Manufacture Royale's most controversial, and undoubtedly most incredible, piece is the highly complicated Opera, which features a minute repeater, tourbillon, and, most anachronistically, a hinged...
View ArticleComplete List And Photos Of All Pre-Selected Watches In The 2015 Grand Prix...
The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) has just published the list of 2015's pre-selected watches in the run-up to the big red carpet event in Geneva on October 29. The pre-selected watches will...
View ArticleWhy The Manufacture Royale 1770 Voltige Has No Need To “Humble Brag”
In the watch industry, there are many brands struggling to find just the right balance of modesty and pride in their accomplishments, but one brand that does a pretty darn good job of juggling the...
View ArticleManufacture Royale’s Creative Spirit Of Enlightened Horology
The first Manufacture Royale was founded during the Age of Enlightenment by French writer, historian, and philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778). Launched in 2010, the modern Manufacture Royale inherited...
View ArticleThe Manufacture Royale 1770 Micromégas Revolution & Voltaire’s Interstellar...
Manufacture Royale doesn’t seek to be a small brand that does small things or a big brand that does all and knows all, but a brand that makes its own meaning and direction. The new 1770 Micromégas...
View ArticleGive Me Five! 5 Skeletonized Watches That Came Out Of The Closet At...
In recent years, the word “skeletonization” as it is used in the world of watches has shifted slightly in meaning to include movements designed from the outset as skeletonized. Let’s take a look at a...
View ArticleOur Predictions In The Travel Time Category Of The 2017 Grand Prix...
Welcome to the 2017 edition of Quill & Pad’s Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève predictions in which the team picks favorites and explains why. Today the panel examines the interesting Travel Time...
View ArticleManufacture Royale’s ADN And The Realizations Of A Monoglot
When presented with the Manufacture Royale ADN I didn’t know at first that it was supposed to be an evolution of and return to the brand’s DNA – or in this case, ADN. I quickly figured out that was the...
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