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• WORLD EXCLUSIVE : the first McGonigle ‘Tuscar’ has been delivered

  By horologium on January 26, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Irish brothers John and Stephen McGonigle’s first watch, launched in 2007, was a tourbillon that earned them candidacy to the AHCI (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants). Their second watch the ‘Tuscar’, named after a lighthouse marked group of rocks that skirt… Read More ›

• PHOTO : Sinn in the snow

  By horologium on January 20, 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  I am in London at present, and the heavy snowfall yesterday meant, of course, my first ‘watch in the snow’ photo opp. Fortunately, one of the watches with which I have been travelling is excellently suited for such purposes, my… Read More ›

• NEWS: Richemont brands win $100 million lawsuit against counterfeiters

  By horologium on January 19, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Hundreds of websites that allegedly sell counterfeit watches are set to be taken down, the result of a $100 million default judgment won in a New York Federal Court judgement on January 4, 2013 by a group of Richemont brands…. Read More ›

• NEWS: Swatch buys Harry Winston jewellery for $750 million

  By horologium on January 17, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The Swatch Group, which terminated a partnership with jeweller Tiffany in 2011, has re-entered the jewellery acquisitions territory, buying Harry Winston’s watch and jewellery for US$750 million in cash and US$250 million in net debt, according to Reuters. Swatch Group… Read More ›

• Power-up! The Lange 31

  By horologium on January 16, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  This is the third and final Lange post from an extended Lange afternoon in Melbourne recently. The first post was an overview of the brand’s arrival in Australia, the second about my favourite, the Zeitwerk, and this final post will… Read More ›

• Omega’s sleek and modern Planet Ocean

  By horologium on January 12, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  With all the recent fuss about Omega’s Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M ‘SKYFALL’ LE, we thought that we’d go ‘back to basics’, in a manner of speaking. The Seamaster story goes back to 1948, when Omega launched a watch with a… Read More ›

• Hands-on with Jaeger-LeCoultre’s ‘Reverso Rouge’

  By horologium on January 4, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Considered to be one of the true horological icons, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Reverso is the legendary reversible watch created in 1931 for polo players looking to protect the glass of their watch. Since then, it has not only proven itself to be… Read More ›

• HANDS ON : Casio’s limited edition Royal Air Force G-Shock

  By horologium on December 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  At the announcement of a collaboration between Casio and the British Royal Air Force to create a limited edition G-SHOCK Gravity Defier (GW-A1000RAF-1AER), I pondered aloud that even with a limited edition of 2,000 and a price of GBP500, it… Read More ›

• A modern design classic – the Zeitwerk

  By horologium on December 27, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In the past I have written about watches that I have seen after a great deal of anticipation but whose reality just hasn’t grabbed me, or of my first meeting with a watch that I’d mentally wanted but found myself… Read More ›

• A new moon rising from Stepan Sarpaneva

  By horologium on December 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Perhaps you’ve heard about Stepan Sarpaneva’s 2012 release, the Korona K0 Wuoksi, or his MB&F collaboration, the Moonmachine. If you’re keeping an eagle eye out you may well have even seen his announcement of a new S.U.F. “Myrsky” in 2013…. Read More ›