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Julien Tornare Named New CEO Of Zenith Watches
Head of Watchmaking at LVMH Jean-Claude Biver has named Julien Tornare as his pick for the role of CEO at Zenith Watches. Earlier this year, Biver announced that Aldo Magada had resigned and that he would himself take over as the interim CEO of Zenith. Back then, Biver said that he hoped to appoint a new CEO for Zenith within six months. And after his interim CEO position at TAG Heuer seemed to be becoming indefinite, it wasn’t clear just how much Mr. Biver intended to take on in addition to his vague but regal title at LVMH. But now, just three months later, we have our man to run Zenith.Julien Tornare has been in the watch industry for nearly two decades and has spent the last 17 years at Vacheron Constantin, where there have also been recent management changes along with other Richemont brands. Mr. Tornare started at Vacheron Constantin as the market head for Switzerland, and his last post at the brand was Managing Director for Asia-Pacific, where he helped grow the number of
Ball Engineer Master II Slide Chronograph Watch, Slipping To The Future
When I first read about the new Ball Engineer Master II Slide Chronograph, I for some reason had the refrain of “Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping… into the future” pop into my head. Is this new Ball the future of chronographs? Well, time will tell. For now, though, it definitely is an intriguing iteration.If you were only to look at the dial of the new Ball Engineer Master II Slide Chronograph, you would have no problem identifying it as a chronograph: it has a traditional “tri-compax” layout with the 30-minute register up top, running seconds at 9, 12-hour register at the bottom, and a tachymeter scale around the outside. When you look to the side of the almost 48?mm case and see no pushers surrounding the crown… then you begin to question your assumptions.