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HD3 Wins Innovation Award at Couture Las Vegas, June 4, 2012 In front of a packed house, representing every corner of the watch and jewelry industry at the 2012 Couture Design Awards, HD3 won the Couture Time Award for Innovation with their HD3 Slyde. The show took place at Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas last week, at the end of the Couture trade show. Accepting the award on behalf of HD3 was Johnny Wizman, CEO of Luxury Montres, North American distributor for the brand. HD3 Senior Designer & Founder, Jorg Hysek said ... >>> more >>> Senator Moon Phase Skeletonized Edition - For the connoisseur of fine watchmaking art Glashütte, May 29, 2012 The Glashütte Original Senator Moon Phase Skeletonized Edition invokes the grand tradition of skeleton watches, designed to reveal the fascinating micromechanical universe at the heart of the watchmaker’s art. This latest masterpiece from the Saxon manufactory takes up the Glashütte Original 1845 Classic Up/Down with Moon Phase model originally introduced more than ten years ago. The 2012 edition is presented in a reworked, superbly finished red gold case designed to enhance the connoisseur’s vision, ... >>> more >>> Record price for unique A. Lange & Söhne piece Glashütte, May 2012 A very special unique piece of A. Lange & Söhne has found a new owner at the 85th watch auction of the renowned auction house Dr. Crott on 12th May 2012 in Frankfurt: a TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite” with a reduced platinum case and a black dial that was sold in 1996. At the price of EUR 330.000 a Lange TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite” has changed its owner last Saturday in Frankfurt. With this high amount the unique piece was far beyond the value that experts of the renowned auction house Dr. Crott had expected. Indeed, the exceptional masterpiece of A. Lange & Söhne fetched nearly the fivefold of the original retail price from ... >>> more >>> New “Caliber I” in Mammoth Ivory from Lang & Heyne Dresden, April 2012 When people talk shop about materials in the world of watches today, they usually mean new alloys or even silicon. But not at LANG & HEYNE in Dresden. “There’s no way that I would allow such an unappealing material that is used in the mass production of computer chips to be used for my watches.“ This is what our master watchmaker would say in response to such talk. Quite rightly so, particularly for a top watch brand that feels a close kinship to the classic tradition of making watches by hand. Thus our new watches have once again been inspired by historic ... >>> more >>> “A. Lange & Söhne – Great Timepieces from Saxony” on hand in English and Italian Glashütte, April 2012 Reinhard Meis’ book entitled “A. Lange & Söhne – Great Timepieces from Saxony” is a standard work of encyclopaedic precision and a must for every true aficionado of mechanical watchmaking. Now it is also available in English and Italian language. A writer of acclaimed books on horology, Reinhard Meis invested eight years to thoroughly revise his standard work dedicated to Germany’s most famous watch brand ... >>> more >>>