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: 6 minutesThe 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: 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 minutesThe 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 minutesLooking 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 minutesIt 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 minutesTo 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 minutesEvery 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: 4 minutes The Moon was and it will always be a fascinating appearance in the night’s sky. It is since the oldest times associated with fantastic and supernatural beings and now it’s the boy’s dream of exploration. For some of us, the Moon is desired at the wrist as a horological complication, asContinue Reading