Reading Time: 3 minutesIn July I have read an interesting article on Hodinkee about a rare Rolex – Cellini Rolex Prince: The Rolex Nobody Knows (But You Should). I was intrigued! I am not a Rolex fan in particular but that image with a quadratic watch on a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Brut made me read carefullyContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes I always like to know details about the creator/designer/manufacturer of the watch I like. It is the human touch that makes it more interesting, so, after the view of the One Hertz, I prepared some questions for the Horological Brothers. The Grönefelds are based in Oldenzaal, Netherlands, and they ownContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe first time I’ve heard about the dead second was in 2012. It was the One Hertz 1912 of the independent Grönefeld brothers. I saw some pictures and some short clips and I was thrilled. Gönefeld One Hertz Classic Gönefeld One Hertz Classic Back At that point, I wasContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have asked myself these questions too at some point in time. Here are my answers. How do you define a watch collector? Some say that if you have two watches and consider buying the third – it’s already too late – you are a collector. When IContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a few things that can bring me to tears of joy even in the darkest moments: my wife, a DB9 with an Amvox Transponder linked and chocolate. If you are a watch lover forget about smart watches, quartz, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater and other complications. Go toContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had on Saturday a great surprise: visiting the Retro Classics Show (classic cars exhibition – http://www.retro-classics.de/en/) I encountered there Benzinger Watches (http://www.jochenbenzinger.de). A greater surprise was to see Mr. Benzinger present there. In a corner he was working at, as he later told me, the decoration of the balance’sContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring my ‘investigation’ for the Voutilainen Chronograph I stopped at some point and asked myself what is Mr. Voutilainen wearing at his wrist during the day. And if he likes watches (judging by his career pick), more than sure he has preferences. So I decided to ask him and Mr. VoutilainenContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome great masters exist undoubtedly in this world, unfortunately, they are few. One of these masters is Kari Voutilainen. I decided to shortly present some of his work/creations – the Chronograph series. On his website http://voutilainen.ch/site/the-watches/ we can find 3 pieces: Masterpiece Chronograph, Chronograph Monopoussoir and Masterpiece Chronograph II. TheContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 1270P caliber – one of the latest, thinnest and a very beautiful automatic movement (http://int.piaget.com/movement/1270p-tourbillon-movement ) In the beginnings, when I was young and inexperienced, I believed that automatic watches are a new thing, coming from the modern ages… I was terribly wrong! But then I started to discover watchesContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery watchmaker is fighting a series of physical laws when creating a watch. A great problem on precision is caused by the gravity since the positions of the tourbillon are limited. Since 2002, the team from JLC (Magali Metrailler as responsible for the aesthetic aspects and Eric Coudray for theContinue Reading