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• Cartier Grand Complication Skeleton pocket watch

  By horologium on December 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In recent years Cartier has unveiled a “grande complication” for each SIHH, featuring a tourbillon, perpetual calendar and monopusher chrono. In 2012, Cartier’s piece won’t be a wristwatch, but a pocket watch. Visually similar to both the caliber 9362 MC… Read More ›

• Pre-owned watch shops : Melbourne

  By horologium on December 23, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Recently in Melbourne for horological and other assorted activities, visits to the main pre-owned watch dealers were, of course, on the agenda. Unlike the compilation of my Hong Kong list of pre-owned watch shops, this was an easy task, as… Read More ›

• TAG LINK smartphone – yours for $6,400

  By horologium on December 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Announced in July, TAG’s entry into the pricey-smartphone market, the LINK, has just been relased in Australia with a starting price of a whopping $6400 and yes, one has been ‘sold’. The presence of TAG brand ambassador Di Caprio in… Read More ›

• An early Omega Bumper

  By horologium on December 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Amongst many vintage watch enthusiasts, Omega has a strong hold both aesthetically, and because of the mechanical innovations made by the brand. One of these is the calibre 28.10. Introduced in 1943, it was Omega’s first commercialised automatic moment, and… Read More ›

• Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Alarm Navy SEAL

  By horologium on December 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In 1959, Jaeger-LeCoultre launched the Memovox Deep Sea, the first diving watch to be fitted with an alarm that would alert the diver when the oxygen level was low, so that the diver would know when it was necessary to… Read More ›

• Universal Genève Polerouters – Cal.69 and Cal.138

  By horologium on December 5, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  Polerouter Date cal.69   UG was founded in 1894 as “Universal Watch” by Numa-Emile Descombes and Ulysse Georges Perret for the “production of watch-cases, domes, watch dials, movement, fitted boxes and packaging for watches”. Descombes died at age 34 in 1897,… Read More ›

• flour and stone : when baking meets horology

  By horologium on December 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve become a fan of flour and stone, and have visited them a few times since these two visits. One of the reasons behind one of these subsequent visits was to put in a special order – pocket watch gingerbread…. Read More ›

• Selections from Antiquorum’s NY December auction

  By horologium on November 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  With the end of 2011 nigh, Antiquorum’s December “Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces” auction in New York will feature a mixed bag of 450 modern and vintage timepieces, and even some parts (see lots 323 to 327). You can view… Read More ›

• Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2011 : results

  By horologium on November 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The 2011 Aiguille d’Or Grand Prix has just been awarded to De Bethune for its DB28 at the 11th Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix (GPHG) on Saturday 19 November. The Grand Prix was founded in 2001 by the Geneva Watchmaking Grand… Read More ›

• Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5712/1A

  By horologium on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This year has seen the loss of a number of watch luminaries. One of these was Gérald Genta. One of the (many) watches for which he was (and still is) most well-known is Patek Philippe’s Nautilus, introduced in 1976. It… Read More ›