The Corum Admiral's Cup Legend 46 Minute Repeater Acoustica is the first minute repeater with 4 gongs that produce 4 notes - two chords at the same time for hours and two for minutes. Read full description.

This video shows the process, from start to finish, of how raw carbon fiber is turned into a watch case. First, carbon fibers are placed in a metal mold, then the mold is heated, and then it is compressed. After going through the final quality checks and being polished (not shown in video), the resulting forged carbon case will look like this or this.

HYT CEO and creative director, Vincent Perriard, explains not just how the HYT H1 functions, but also some of the problems his team had to solve in order to make this timepiece a reality. Video was filmed last week at Baselworld.

This video was shot yesterday at Baselworld 2012.

This is the new TAG Heuer Mikrogirder 10000, one of the most technically innovative mechanical chronographs ever made. Not to mention the most precise.

Sans the traditional balance spring and balance wheel assembly, TAG Heuer watchmakers have engineered a movement that runs at an insane 7.2 million vph, or 1,000 Hz. The result, is a timepiece that is accurate to 5/10,000th of a second.

Once activated, the chronograph hand is so fast, you can barely even see it with the naked eye. It is absolutely amazing to watch. Furthermore, if you listen closely, you can hear it hum ever so smoothly, as it sweeps the dial 20 times per second.

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This is a teaser of the Christophe Claret X-TREM-1 which will be officially revealed next week at Baselworld 2012. It features magnetic retrograde hour and minute indications, and a tourbillon which displays seconds.

At the Salon International de La Haute Horology in Geneva, January 2012, Van Cleef & Arpels revealed its most technical complication yet - the Poetic Wish (ladies' and men's version). Each version features a retrograde time hours and minutes indication and a 5-minute repeater.

On demand, with the turn of the crown at 2 o'clock, three automatons depict a scene on the dial. The figure (man or woman) moves towards the center of the dial with the hours, accompanied by a mother-of-pearl cloud coming from the opposite direction. When they meet, a shooting star emerges and shows the minutes (a kite takes he place of the star in the ladies' version). These actions are enhanced by the chiming of the hours and minutes.

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