SalonQP brings together over 90 exhibitors from the world of watchmaking, including a large contingent of home-grown UK watchmaking talent that watch fans can usually only see at this annual London event. Three new brands will launch at the show, including Czapek & Cie. which was presented only yesterday on WorldTempus.
Urban Jürgensen is one of 15 brands that will be exhibiting at the show for the first time, with a further twelve brands choosing SalonQP for new product launches. Traditionally, SalonQP is also the first opportunity to see the exhibition of all the winning watches from the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.
A separate exhibition entitled “Gems of Time: The Art of Colour” looks specifically at the use of coloured gemstones in fine watchmaking and two of the informative seminars during the event will be devoted to the subjects of high jewellery watches (13th November at 12.30pm with Sasha Slater of Harper’s Bazaar and Caragh McKay, editor of Telegraph Time and coloured gemstones (13th November at 3pm with Daniel Struyf, International Jewellery Director at Bonhams).
Watch fans will be spoiled for choice with the broad selection of big names and smaller, independent brands and will have a rare chance to see a Grand Seiko Hibeat movement being assembled by one of the brand’s master watchmakers, Mr Hiraga, who is travelling all the way from Japan. An even rarer delight is the opportunity to see a Roger Smith timepiece. The master watchmaker from the Isle of Man, who worked with George Daniels, produces only 10 pieces of his Series 2, which uses a single-wheel version of the Daniels Co-Axial escapement.
