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Stephen Urquhart To Retire As President Of Omega, Succeeded By Raynald Aeschlimann
After 16 years leading Swatch Group AG's Omega brand, Stephen Urquhart is retiring as president?of Omega, Bloomberg reports.?Urquhart, who turns 70 at the end of May, will work on special projects and consult for the company, according to Swatch Group’s statement from today. He will be succeeded?by?Raynald Aeschlimann.Urquhart’s career actually started at Omega in 1969, which he left?after?6 years, joining Audemars Piguet. After?15 years there and becoming chairman of the company, he?left AP in 1989 for Jaeger-LeCoultre and then Blancpain, to finally return to Omega in 1999. Interestingly, this was also the year that Omega presented its first Co-Axial movement-equipped timepiece. With this new movement and the direction?of Urquhart, the success story of the 21st century Omega had begun.
Armin Strom Skeleton Pure Watches Hands-On
Now toward the end of 2014, Swiss watch maker Armin Strom releases a compelling new set of two limited edition watches that once again focus on skeletonizing its in-house made movements. Here is our hands-on look at the new Armin Strom Skeleton Pure Water and Fire timepieces. We’ve also added images of the Skeleton Pure Earth and Air watches. To put these two watches into context, let’s take a look back earlier in 2014 to the Armin Strom One Week Skeleton (hands-on here). If you recall, it was one of our top choices in our best watches of Baselworld 2014.The Armin Strom Skeleton Pure watches have the same case and movement as the Armin Strom One Week Skeleton, with the main differences being materials and the type of skeletonization used for the in-house produced Armin Strom caliber ARM09 movement. For the One Week Skeleton, the craftspeople at Armin Strom wanted to take a decidedly more classic approach to skeletonization. That means not only cutting away at the movement b