Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett will
star in a 15-minute theatrical performance entitled Minutes of a Separation
at a spectacular
gala by Swiss watch manufacture
IWC
Schaffhausen at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) on 8
April.
The gala event,
named “The Crossing”, marks the company’s 140th anniversary and also
sees the official launch of the IWC Vintage Collection – Jubilee Edition 1868 –
2008.
The collection
comprises reinterpretations of six iconic IWC models - Pilot’s
Watch Hand-Wound,
the Portuguese Hand-Wound, the Ingenieur Automatic, the Aquatimer Automatic,
the Da Vinci Automatic and the Portofino Hand-Wound.
Invited guests at
the event can look forward to an enthralling performance by Blanchett and
co-star British actor Joseph Fiennes, as well as aerialists from Australian
physical theatre company, Legs On The Wall.
Minutes will be staged against a backdrop of a massive and elaborately designed
set to replicate the scene of the Boston harbor, set to take guests on a voyage
back in time.
