Something to look forward to for Baselworld 2008: the Memoire 1 from Maurice LaCroix. The watch  is still in its production stages, but you can follow its progress on a website dedicated to that purpose.

So far, what we know is that the Memoire 1 will be the first watch to benefit from a truly interesting innovation by Maurice LaCroix: a memory function for a mechanical watch.

This watch has only two hands - one to indicate the minutes, and the other for the seconds. It also has a disk to indicate the hours. There is a button integrated into the crown, which, when pressed, enables the watch to switch from ‘Time’ to ‘Chrono’ mode. Even when you shift between modes, the watch stores all the information from either mode.

A mechanical watch that ‘remembers’. I will definitely be following its progress.