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HANDS-ON : De Bethune Piece Unique Dream Watch 5 Meteorite
By and large handling a watch for the first time involves impressions about weight, size, lugs, how a watch feels on the wrist, thoughts about straps or bracelets, and overall impressions about how the...
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WANTED : watchmaker to work with Roger Smith
Okay. So a job advertisement isn’t something that I would normally post about here, but I know that this is something that doesn’t exactly come up regularly, and that I know will be of interest to some...
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FILM : Celebrating the AHCI (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants
You may recall the announcement last year of a short film about the AHCI and featuring some of its members, retailers, and industry veterans, talking about the work of independent watchmakers both as...
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JAPAN : Watch trip of a rambling enthusiast
Today we have a guest post from collector/ enthusiast @crunchylatte in which he shares his horological adventures visiting some key Tokyo watch destinations. Enjoy. DISCLAIMER: These are merely the...
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PETER SPEAKE-MARIN : Velsheda Gothic
Last month Peter Speake-Marin added to his classic J-Class Collection with a new variant of the single-handed Velsheda (aka descendant of Shimoda). Again we have the single polished, blued steel hand...
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URWERK : the UR-105 T-Rex
In 2014 Urwerk introduced the manual-wind UR-105 via the Iron Knight and Dark Night, followed in 2015 by the automatic UR-105 TA (Turbine Automatic) Knight, whose movement is regulated via dual air...
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NEWS : HYT and Preciflex SA raise 23 million CHF
Maker of liquid time-telling wristwatches and SIHH 2016 newcomers HYT have announced a successful fundraising effort for their upcoming new collections, with investors including Nestle CEO Peter...
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MB&F : HMX Black Badger
You may recall MB&F’s HMX, part of their 10th birthday celebrations in 2015. They decided to follow this up with a collaboration with Jack Thompson (aka ‘Black Badger’ on Twitter and Instagram),...
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HANDS-ON : Laurent Ferrier Galet Traveller Boreal in Stainless Steel
Laurent Ferrier is a brand about which we’ve not written much here; in fact the sum total of posts to date has been a rather spartan one in number. This has not been the result of any deliberate...
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NEWS : Seven new brands to join SIHH 2017
Last year saw the announcement of the departure of Ralph Lauren from SIHH and the arrival of nine independent brands in what was called the ‘Carré des Horlogers’. It has just been reported in Le Temps...
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STEPAN SARPANEVA : Korona K3 Northern Stars Black Enamel
Stepan Sarpaneva’s Korona K3 has come in a number of forms, including a quite amazing white enamel dialled Northern Stars (amazing because the enamel dial somehow seems more stark and pristine than...
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MB&F : LM1 Silberstein
So I was at Baselworld 2016 waiting for my appointment when I noticed a familiar looking person. I stood there wracking my brains, trying to match a name. Then I glanced down at his wrist. It was Mr....
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URWERK : UR-106 Black Pink Lotus
You may recall last year’s release of the Urwerk UR-106 Lotus, which came in black and white versions. The first overtly female-oriented Urwerk timepiece (bearing in mind women have been buying the...
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CHRISTOPHE CLARET : Marguerite
At SIHH 2016 we had our first opportunity to get some proper hands-on time with Christophe Claret’s watches, including the extraordinary Soprano with its Westminster Chime, but more on that at a later...
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GREUBEL FORSEY : Signature 1
Greubel Forsey recently hit the headlines for the rather head-exploding price realised by their first Naissance ‘School Watch’ (photo of the prototype below) at a Christie’s auction : HKD 11,296,000....
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RJ-Romain Jerome : Tetris
Space Invaders, Pac-Man and most recently, Super Mario. The list is incomplete without one of the most popular games of all time, and one whose obsessive players perhaps straddled more generations at...
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PHOTOS : Romain Gauthier HMS Ten
You may recall an earlier post about some limited editions of Romain Gauthier’s HMS Ten, a continuation of the ‘Prestige HMS’ Collection and released in three variants of ten pieces each : platinum...
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GoS : Gustafsson & Sjögren’s Damascus steel watches
It had been a long wait, and truth be told I had thought that I would never see watchmaker Patrik Sjögren and blade smith Johan Gustafsson’s Damascus steel watches in anything other than an online...
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URWERK : EMC Time Hunter
Many of you will recall Urwerk’s EMC – Electro Mechanical Control watch that was released a couple of years ago. For those who refresh to refresh their memories, go to our earlier post at this link....
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HANDS-ON : DANIELS Anniversary
Very occasionally, I find myself worrying about a watch before I see it. Before seeing today’s watch, I worried. I wasn’t worried about dropping it. I wasn’t worried about something happening to it...
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