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Kicking off the week, we asked some of our retail partners for their top five timepieces from Watches & Wonders. Discover what Yannick Meylan, from the boutique Lionel Meylan, chose from the fair.

Freak S © Ulysse Nardin

Out Golfing

Our correspondent Olivier Müller put the new TAG Heuer Connected Golf Edition to the test this week on the greens of Paris’s Joyenval private golf club. A keen, but not particularly frequent golfer, Olivier soon got back into the swing of things (excuse the pun) and appreciated the fact that the watch looks more like a “real” watch than an extension of a smartphone. He also enjoyed many of the golf-specific features, like its removable magnetic ball marker, excellent legibility (even in the sunshine), analysis of shot distances, and more. Discover his full report here.

Test-driving the TAG Heuer Connected Golf Edition

TAG Heuer Connected Golf © Olivier Müller / WorldTempus

The OAK Collection

In anticipation of the upcoming OAK Collection exhibition, we take a look at some of the 500 watches that will be on display at London’s Design Museum from May 19th to 25th. The collection has been compiled by French businessman Patrick Getreide over the span of 40 years and features everything from vintage to contemporary watches, one-of-a-kind pieces, rare limited editions and even watches worn by Eric Clapton and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The exhibition is split up into 11 sections with seven areas devoted to Patek Philippe, one to F.P. Journe and Voutilainen, and three to Rolex.

The Origins of the Quartz Watch

The history of the quartz watch runs much deeper than the crisis it caused. You may be surprised to learn that the first quartz movements were actually a Swiss invention, that is before the Japanese mastered industrial production. Read the complete history of what happened back in the 1970s here.

Collection Elegante © F.P Journe

GMT Magazine

If you missed the last issue of GMT magazine, don’t fear, this week we have been publishing some of the best articles from our sister magazine on WorldTempus. Discover some of the artistic magic that takes place in Vacheron Constantin’s decorative arts workshops here, Hublot’s love of alloy alchemy here, a celebration of 50 years on the moon at Gucci here, and a focus on the A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Minute Repeater here.

All the Week’s New Releases

Hardly a week goes by without a selection of new watch releases and this week is no exception. Check out the Jacob & Co. Astronomia Casino, the latest Omega Constellation 41mm, Doxa’s re-edition of its Swiss Army’s elite divers’ unit watch, Armin Strom’s new Resonance “Salmon”, and more.