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
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is quite a while since I wrote my review on Augustin Matei (or the Romanian Website) watches and since then he had a lot of new projects and his work is becoming better known. Doing custom watches at very affordable prices is not easy but for some collectors havingContinue 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: 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