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Roger Dubuis is the brand name of luxury watches and jewellery founded by Carlos Dias and Roger Dubuis.

Dubuis, a talented watchmaker, founded his own atelier in 1980 after 14 years of developing complications for Patek Philippe. He took commissions to design new complications for major brands for several years. Carlos Dias, a designer for Franck Muller, joined Dubuis to launch the brand. Roger Dubuis was born in Geneva and all of his watches, strongly associated with that culture, are submitted to the quality hallmark of the Poinçon de Genève as well as receiving chronometer certifications.

In August 2008, Richemont Group has acquired 60 percent interest in Roger Dubuis SA. The announcement was made on Monday, August 11, 2008. Richemont, based in Geneva, said the acquisition was a private transaction with Carlos Dias, chief executable officer and primary shareholder of Roger Dubuis SA.

Roger Dubuis SA, based in Geneva, will continue to manufacture and distribute watches under the ‘Roger Dubuis’ name.

Roger Dubuis’s story

Founded in 1995, the manufacturing structure of ROGER DUBUIS was fully in place by 1999. The first building was inaugurated in Meyrin in 2001. Manufacturing independence was achieved in 2003 with its own production of balance-and-spring regulating organs. In 2005, a second building served to regroup the 500 employees in a single 14,500 square-metre site. The 120 machines of its micromechanical engineering workshops produce the entire range of parts for the proprietary ROGER DUBUIS movements. This fully verticalised and state-of-the-art industrialisation brilliantly endorses the company’s status as an authentic Manufacture.

April 2006 Six new movements were presented at Geneva’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), three of them for the first time. They were fitted mainly in the latest Excalibur models, one of the brand’s flagship collections, and bring the number of movements manufactured to 28, each of which is hallmarked with the Poinçon de Genève, sometimes referred to as the Geneva Seal.

2007 An exhibition organised at the SIHH displayed all 28 movements, thereby demonstrating the brand’s exceptional heritage.

2008 Launch of the Kingsquare collection. In August 2008, Roger Dubuis joins the Richemont luxury group.

2009 The rigorous standards of the Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark, to which all the brand’s movements are already submitted, are complemented since 2009 by operating tests performed by recognised watchmaking laboratories. Furthermore, as of 2010, all new Roger Dubuis calibres will be systematically submitted to the COSC (Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute) for chronometer certification, and the entire Roger Dubuis movement range will be progressively COSC-certified by 2012.

Corum was founded in 1955 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland by Gaston Ries and his nephew, Renee Bannwart, and just one year later the first Corum watches were being produced.

Corum’s claim to fame came early on when the company introduced a watch made out of a $20 dollar gold piece which was an instant best-seller. Even though this had been done before on pocket watches, Corum was the first and only one ever to do a wristwatch.

In January 2000, Corum was purchased by it’s current owner, Severin Wunderman, and was soon under the guidance of his son Michael, the President of the company to this date.

The team was completed in 2007 with the arrival of a man with a rich professional background, Antoine Calce, to the CEO position, who oversees overall operations.
 
Corum Models
Admiral’s Cup
The Admiral’s Cup race was first held in 1957 and the Corum Admiral’s Cup watch was introduced just 3 years later in 1960. This first watch was square, water resistant and had a sailboat engraved in the back. It had little resemblance to the current Corum Admiral’s Cup watches with their twelve-sided case design and brightly colored nautical penants decorating the bezels. The Corum Admiral’s Cup is available in 40mm, 41mm, 44mm, and 48mm as well as in versions with a chronograph complication or just time and date. Several materials are available as well: rose gold, yellow gold, two tone, stainless steel and even a titanium and rubber fusion on the Admiral’s Cup Challenge Regatta 2007.
 
Romulus
Created in 1966, the Corum Romulus was the first watch ever to display the hour numerals on the bezel. It sports a sapphire case back engraved with a laurel crown in honor of Romulus, the founder of ancient Rome. It’s available in stainless steel, white or yellow gold and a dual time version in either yellow or white gold.

Golden Bridge
The Corum Golden Bridge collection is unique in the watchmaking world. It’s four sapphire sides offer an unrestricted view of the intricately detailed linear movement, which appears to be floating in mid-air, held only by the gold bridge that names this watch. The Corum Golden Bridge is offered in 18k gold or platinum, and is also available with delicate diamond work.

Tourbillon and Classical
The Corum Tourbillon and Classical collection, as the name suggests, is devoted to the most elegant and complicated watches. The current collection is comprised of the Corum Classical Billionaire Tourbillon, a diamond and sapphire covered masterpiece of watchmaking, the Corum Golden Tourbillon Panoramique with its tourbillon movement floating between sapphire bridges, and the skeleton dialed Corum Classical Skylight Skeleton.

Coin Watch
One of the most recognizable Corum watches, the Coin watch, is still available almost fifty years after its debut. Corum precisely installs a manual wind or quartz movement inside a $20 “Double Eagle” or a $10 “Liberty” coin to create this watches that will only get increasingly rare, as the supply for this historic coins diminishes. They are available with a diamond bezel, for a more distinguished look.

Artisan Timepieces
The Corum Artisan watch line is defined by beautiful dials depicting wild animals, exotic locales, or even historic scenes, all of them limited edition masterpieces of some of the very few craftsmen left who are familiar with the immensely time consuming techniques used in these watches.
   
Corum BUBBLE
The Corum Bubble collection exhibits the company’s passion for design innovation, using extra large domed crystals that give the wearer a changing perspective from each different angle. Corum has utilized this versatile platform to create some of the most unique and recognizable limited edition Corum watches, with themes ranging from poker, pirates, to bats or even a skeleton gangster.

History

The Panerai story begins in 1860 when Giovanni Panerai opened his first watchmaking workshops in Florence. The business remained in family hands, being taken over by Giovanni’s son Leon Francesco then in turn by Giovanni’s grandson Guido.

It was probably under Guido’s leadership that Panerai really achieved its most significant breakthrough, becoming official supplier to the Royal Italian Navy. This connection with the Navy was one impetus behind the company’s research into luminous materials; luminous dials etc were of interest to the Navy for night time operations.

Radiomir & Luminor

In the early twentieth century Panerai produced a luminescent material known as Radiomir. This was based around radioactive radium. In 1949 Radiomir was replaced with Luminor. This was based on tritium and Officine Panerai gained a patent for its invention.

Radiomir and Luminor have become the names by which Panerai’s most famous models of watch have become known.

Slytech

1995 saw an unexpected match-up between Officine Panerai and actor Sylvester “Sly” Stallone. At the request of Stallone, Panerai introduced a special range of Slytech watches: The Slytech Luminor Submersible, the Slytech Luminor Daylight and the Slytech Mare Nostrum. These limited edition watches were engraved on the back with Stallone’s signature and were worn by him in various movies.

Today

In 1997 Panerei was taken over by Vendome, now the Richemont Group.

Panerai’s rugged, no-nonsense watches remain cult classics today with a variety of models available to buy. In April 2005 explorer Mike Horn circumnavigated the Arctic Circle, a journey of 12,500 miles on foot, skis, sailing boat and kayak. For the expedition he wore the Panerai Luminor GMT Arktos, automatic mechanical Panerai OP VIII calibre with COSC Chronometer Certificate.