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• TAG Heuer’s electro-mechanical Link Calibre S

  By horologium on October 15, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Watches that seem to be neither quartz nor automatic are particularly intriguing to some collectors, and today’s watch comes from someone who also owns this Spring Drive. To his mind, it is one of the lesser known TAG movements, and… Read More ›

• NEWS: Panerai Luminor Submersible Amagnetic PAM 389

  By horologium on October 13, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Panerai has announced a new addition to their popular Submersible line – the PAM389, aka the Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanio. A variant of the PAM305 Luminor Submersible 1950, the PAM389’s case has a 40,000 A/m (ampere… Read More ›

• IWC’s classic movement – the Calibre 89

  By horologium on October 10, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  A lot happened at IWC in 1944. An American squadron bombed them on April 1 during an air raid on Schaffhausen, there was the appearance of IWC’s first W.W.W. (Watch. Wrist. Waterproof) watches for the British Army, and also the… Read More ›

• A military classic – a look at a Heuer Bund

  By horologium on October 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Produced by Heuer Leonidas S.A. in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the West German Air Force (Budeswehr), these flyback chronographs using Valjoux 22/ 222/ 230 movements known as ‘Heuer Bunds’ are amongst some of the most collectible and… Read More ›

• Scarcity and provenance : Eric Clapton’s Ref. 2499/100 Patek Philippe

  By horologium on October 4, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In the book collecting world, ‘association copies’ often command higher prices, especially if a gift from a notable author to a similarly notable (and perhaps literary) recipient. In the watch world this concept currently seems most commonly manifested via the… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON with Seiko’s rare Izul

  By horologium on October 1, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  Sometimes it feels as though the world of high-end Seikos is a niche ‘connoisseurs’ club where the assumption is that, by and large, the average watch enthusiast (let alone the average punter) has no idea of the existence of these… Read More ›

• Hands-on with the U-Boat U-42 Titanium LE

  By horologium on September 29, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  The first of the U-Boat U-42 limited edition series was a clearly-not-for-the-average person sized 53mm giant (itself a ‘reduced version’ of a mindbogglingly sized 65mm 29 piece LE called the U-1942) based on a diver’s watch designed in 1942 by… Read More ›

• Max Bill’s Bauhaus classic

  By horologium on September 27, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  Acknowledged as a design genius, Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, sculptor, painter, typographer, industrial and graphic designer. A pupil of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, he was famed for the clarity and… Read More ›

• Would you like a side of moon to go with your Speedy?

  By horologium on September 25, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Well you can, the small technicality of funds nothwithstanding, as a 4lb chunk, the fourth-largest piece of lunar rock here, is up for auction. Otherwise called DaG 1058, this breccia originating from the far side of the moon has the… Read More ›

• NEWS : Apple accused of ripping off Swiss Federal Railway service clock design

  By horologium on September 22, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Well. We all know about the famous Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) clock and its more retail manifestation in Mondaine, but apparently Apple doesn’t. The new look of their iPad clock which came with iOS6 bears, as you can see, a… Read More ›