Style Edit: When Mirror singers helped open Hong Kong’s Tudor exhibition – local A-listers turned out to celebrate the Swiss watchmaker’s long history of adventurous ambassadors
- ‘Tudor Manufacture Exhibition: A New Era of Watchmaking’ spotlit the brand’s ambassadors like David Beckham, Jay Chou, the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and Swiss road cyclist Fabian Cancellara
- The opening at Hong Kong Maritime Museum welcomed special guests Jer Lau and Stanley Yau of Mirror, plus Mischa Ip and Cath Wong, and a performance from local band Zpecial
It was that year that the brand unveiled the new Tudor Manufacture in Le Locle, Switzerland, after three years under construction. The four-storey, 59,000 sq ft facility is connected to the neighbouring Kenissi Manufacture, which Tudor set up in 2016 to create its own movements. The new facility allows the brand to bring its movement production entirely in-house, allowing it to exert full control over quality.
As Hong Kong has long been recognised by watchmakers as a place filled with knowledgeable collectors and fans of fine horology, it makes sense that those people were recently given the chance to gain a unique insight into Tudor’s world. That came on November 11-19 in the form of a peek inside the new manufacture, all without having to fly anywhere, at the “Tudor Manufacture Exhibition: A New Era of Watchmaking”, held at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
Like the new manufacture, the exhibition was decorated in Tudor’s trademark colours – a classy combination of red, white, black and grey – and showcased the characteristic stylish minimalism of the brand’s aesthetic. Inside, visitors were able to find out for themselves all about the new manufacture and the technical secrets that make Tudor watches so special. They were also able to immerse themselves in the world of watchmaking first-hand, thanks to a series of interactive workshops that showed just what goes into making timepieces that conform to the most exacting standards of certification.