Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s not unexpected to have experienced watchmakers creating over the carrier some exceptional timepieces, but during the last years, I witnessed some extraordinary timepieces manufactured by small independent watch brands that lack the human and financial resources to do years of development and trials, and still, they manage to createContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes The free Easter days are a perfect moment to have a look at my favourite’s auction house Eppli Website for the latest additions which will be auctioned at the beginning of Mai. I’ve made a short selection of the timepieces interesting to me, some of them being if not rare, atContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first quarter of this year witnessed some interesting reveals in the world of watches. The inevitable progress is met in all the branches without killing the rich horological heritage. An example of innovation, beauty and modernism in the purest horological spirit is the Fabergé Visionnaire Chronograph from the Fabergé Visionnaire Collection. I hadContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes “As a sailor heading toward the seas driven by the celestial vault, I found my star: the Astronomia Sky” – Jacob Arabo, founder of Jacob & Co. Jacob&Co has secured its place between the Haute Horlogerie players with the Grand Complication Masterpieces collection. The watches are incredibly beautiful as timepieces andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes I can say that this year, at BaselWorld 2017, I found My Way, my guilty pleasure. If you ask me, I am an Haute Horlogerie guy, a complication lover and horological finishes obsessed person, but encountering these watches was something magical. It was late when I saw these fluffy beautiesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Freesdial watch from Nord Zeitmaschine is one of those watches that you love or hate because there is no way possible that this watch will be indifferent to you. In my case, this mechanical wonder is a profound love – one of the watches that makes me stop, during the day,Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes Today I will continue my BaselWorld2017 experience with the remaining personal stories from the 24th March. For those who didn’t read the first parts: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are available with pictures from a few independent watchmakers and watch brands. I am not a professional photographer, but some of the picturesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes I can not continue my third part of my impressions at BaseWorld 2017 without a small recap of Part 1 and Part 2: it was my first visit in Basel and at Baselworld, without any plan or any meeting scheduled. I just wanted to improvise and have fun: I’ve met DanielContinue Reading
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