Reading Time: 6 minutesIWC had a sensational appearance at the online debuted Watches & Wonders 2020. The novelties of the Portugieser Collection are exceptional and cover a large range of wishes and necessities. The novelties were presented in detail on the website, each press release article coming with video explanations from IWC’s CreativeContinue Reading
Reading Time: 7 minutesUlysse Nardin has just offered a grant to the Azores University’s marine research centre to acquire ten pop-up biologging sensors to tag blue sharks in the Atlantic and document our knowledge of this endangered species. Swimming with blue sharks, his DIVER 44mm on the wrist, Fred Buyle tags marine animalsContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2020 one of the most exciting creations ever from the mavericks at H.Moser and Cie, the new Streamliner collection, has arrived. Their CEO Edouard Meylan sat down with us before the big reveal – and explained to us the origins and the ambition of The Streamliner. Republished from theContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I will combine my “Found on the Internet” and “Interview” column for a special person – Barbara Palumbo. While the title summarises shortly Barbara, I am firmly convinced that, if you don’t already know her / about her and her work, after this you got yourself a new pieceContinue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutesMing watches are a very interesting proposal in the theatre of independent watchmaking. Albeit I don’t, yet, own at least one of their pieces, I do enjoy them with every encounter. After my reviews of the Ming watches, Hands-on review: Ming Watches – Ming 19.01 and Hands-on review of the MINGContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had the pleasure, during SIHH2019, to have a lovely conversation with David Bernard. David is one of the active members of Time Æon Foundation. For those of view unfamiliar with the Foundation, I recommend you to have a look at these articles from Quill&Pad, SJX, Deployant, FHH Journal andContinue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday I have told you about Fratello Watches. I consider it a cool publication that earned it good place in watch history. I have met Robert-Jan, founder of Fratello Watches several times, but never got the chance to talk about more personal topics. Always on the run during the watchContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesI presented last week, with a great pleasure, The Naked Watchmaker project of the watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin. Since there were some questions left in my mind, I decided to ask the man himself, according to my tradition, only two questions. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe presented recently the Pioneer Chronicles Campaign. Original and maybe a bit controversial, the Pioneer Chronicles intend to make us think at the real reasons why we want a watch. Moreover, it intends to create a lust – the lust for an H. Moser & Cie Pioneer watch. We askedContinue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutesA month ago I wrote about the Jumping minutes and jumping hours from 4N Paris – a gorgeous example of Haute Horlogerie. The 4N Watch is a great example of innovation in the world of watches, a breath of fresh air. Writing the article, I was very eager to find outContinue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery time I write about the independent brands and watchmakers I think about the personal side of it. That’s the advantage of the Independent Watchmaking – you can put a person and a face to it. I like to know the people behind, to understand them and to make theContinue Reading