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• BASELWORLD 2013 : Rolex reaches for the paint brushes

  By horologium on April 28, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  The history of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona begins with the production of the reference 6263 in 1963 (although ‘Daytona’ didn’t appear in official advertising until 1965), so in this the year of its 50th anniversary, there has been a lot… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2013 : affordable luxury from Frédérique Constant

  By horologium on April 27, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Departing my previous blogging abode did not mean cutting ties completely, and with Baselworld alive and kicking for the year, @onomatopia, @initialjh and I found ourselves animatedly discussing the new Frédérique Constant Slimline Moonphase. So much so in fact, that… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2013 : Jaquet Droz Grande Heure GMT

  By horologium on April 26, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Jaquet Droz’s ‘Majestic Beijing’ collection contains my favourite JD model the ‘Twelve Cities’ (Les Douze Villes), and it is also the thematic home of the elegant Eclipse watches from last year. Some of the stalwarts of this collection are the… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2013 : Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon

  By horologium on April 25, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  There have been two new Omegas that have stood out for me so far at Baselworld 2013, and the new Speedy Dark Side of the Moon is one of them. This classic and Omega stalwart, whose iterations are seemingly infinite,… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2013 : Glashütte Original re-designs Senator collection

  By horologium on April 25, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Glashütte Original (GO) have decided to stick close to home and re-launch a newly re-designed Senator collection courtesy of the Panorama Date and Panorama Date Moonphase, both in 40mm sized cases and available in stainless steel or red gold and… Read More ›

• BASELWORLD 2013 : Zenith’s Christoph Colomb Hurricane

  By horologium on April 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Baselworld releases often have the watch industry equivalent of a restaurant’s ‘soft opening’ up to months before the actual fair, and so it was at the end of January 2013 in Geneva when I visited Zenith’s temporary digs and saw… Read More ›

• HANDS ON : Montblanc’s Nicholas Rieussec Rising Hours

  By horologium on April 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Who was Nicholas Rieussec? Well in 1821 he created a chronograph for horse racing, using two discs and ink. A piece created first and foremost to satisfy a need, Rieussec had a pair of indices with ink-filled nibs above two… Read More ›

• Piaget : not just watches

  By horologium on April 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Some of you may know that as well as their watches, Piaget has a successful and significant jewellery collection for both men and women. Their jewellery range is perhaps not as widely available or well-known as their watches, but the… Read More ›

• Horses vs watches

  By horologium on April 18, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Being Australian, there is a citizenship requirement to be interested in the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups at a very bare minimum. Although I know and have known people actively interested in the industry, the nature of the equine racing biz… Read More ›

• EXHIBITION : Breguet – inventor of the tourbillon

  By horologium on April 16, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  This year Montres Breguet is celebrating the Breguet tourbillon via a worldwide travelling exhibition that was launched at Geneva’s Cité du Temps during SIHH 2013, where it was on display for a month. Entitled “Breguet, the innovator. Inventor of the… Read More ›