Reading Time: 3 minutes Today I will continue to reveal my BaselWorld2017 experience but not before I make a small recapitulation of Part 1: my first time in Basel, had a look at the Nord Zeitmaschine Freesdial watches, wondering around the MB&F timepieces and creatures, enjoying, at last, the Fiona Krüger Petit Skull Blue andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Friday, 24.March 2017 was a great day for me. I decided at the last minute to go to Baselworld, with some help from my wife, that supports my horological hobby very much – Thank you, dear! To make everything simpler, or more complicated, depending on the point of view, IContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Our UR-T8, of course, recalls the Reverso watches, we have unstructured the concept to create a genuine URWERK model. The UR-T8 features all the characteristics that we have made our own: the huge crown, the organically shaped sapphire crystal glass, the textured case that invites your touch, a strong personalityContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes The skull represents death and mortality. At the same time, the skull is the first sign of human presence on Mother Earth. Some people use the skull symbol to celebrate the dead and the living, in some religions and believes it is a sign of good luck and so on.Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Looking forward to this year’s Baselworld I remembered some of the last year’s releases. One of the watches unveiled at Baseworld 2016 (wow, another year has passed) comes from Glashütte – one of the most important horological regions in Germany – the ATUM Pure M from Moritz Grossmann. Even if the GrossmannContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes “A gold movement inside a steel case is like a precious item, jealously guarded in a safe. The impenetrable inner riches of a person are a well-hidden treasure. A rare beauty only found by those who know where to look.” – Michel Parmigiani Packed in a polished steel tonneau shapedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes It needs 654 components to make this marvellous timepiece – the Sequential Two from Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps. This watch is so beautiful that is hard for me to talk about it, not because of lack of inspiration but because there are so many things to tell and to show. Like a shyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes To justify why I chose for today a watch released in 2015 I will explain my thoughts chain, my recipe: I wanted a complex complication – tourbillon; I wanted to have at least one complication more, not to be boring – open point; I wanted a case that can fitContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The Scalfaro GTO 1962 Bizzarrini watch is a fabulous piece of machinery. A spectacular instrument and scarce collector’s piece. Clearly, a must have for every serious Ferrarista.” – Marcel Massini, leading Ferrari Marque Expert & Historian. Watches and cars go hand in hand! It’s a close relation between watches andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes Every springtime unfolds in Stuttgart one of the biggest retro and classics automotive fair in Europe – Retro Classics. Between historical and rare cars, spare parts and automobile tuners I had a pleasant surprise to meet Mr Hermann Grieb, the first part of the Grieb & Benzinger brand name. Mr GriebContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the coming spring, I have the feeling that the ladies watches are a better subject. Searching for the best idea I asked myself what kind of watch would a woman choose. So I asked my wife what watch impressed her in the last days. The answer was Grand Bal ReineContinue Reading