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• A look at a 1939 Longines Lindbergh

  By horologium on May 7, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In March, I wrote about a rare Longines Wittnauer Second Setting watch. Thanks to a distinguished collector friend of JPVFX, we now have a follow-up post of an even more well known and rare Longines aeronatical beast – the Longines… Read More ›

• China’s most popular online brands : how do watches fare?

  By horologium on May 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Luxury Society and Digital Luxury Group has released their new index of the top 50 ‘most searched’ luxury brands in China. The first instalment of the World Luxury Index, the ranking covers more than 400 brands within six key… Read More ›

• Would you like to own one of Clark Gable’s watches?

  By horologium on April 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Now what sort of watch do you think Clark Gable wore? Well it turns out that he didn’t restrict himself to a single watch, and that he was a man of varied tastes. Two of his watches, both looking lovingly… Read More ›

• Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire LE

  By horologium on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Sometimes, you don’t realise that there’s a beautiful watch that you’ve read about floating tantalisingly nearby. Then someone offers you the chance to take a look at it. Firstly, what are the ‘Duomètre’ watches? Introduced in 2007, the basic idea… Read More ›

• A look at a Galante Spring Drive

  By horologium on April 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Seiko has a plethora watch lines at all price points, many of which don’t make it to Australia, and some which do, but only in a very limited form. Launched in 2009, the Galante line/ sub-brand is, like their Spring… Read More ›

• Swatch buys case maker Simon Et Membrez

  By horologium on April 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

    The Swatch Group has bought 100% of the shares in family-owned watch case maker Simon et Membrez in a move that it has described as “a seamless fit”. The shares were previously owned by Simon et Membrez CEO Philippe… Read More ›

• IWC 2012 Pilot’s watches : hands-on with the Miramar & Worldtimer

  By horologium on April 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  At SIHH 2012, IWC’s presence was the most talked about, the rather humbly named ‘booth’ a no-cost-spared (partial) reproduction of an aircraft carrier, complete with flight deck, officers’ briefing room, pilots’ locker room, and even a flight deck control room…. Read More ›

• A single-handed 6-hour watch : who else but MeisterSinger?

  By horologium on April 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  We love our MeisterSingers, and own a couple, all single-handed models. Of the current range, the Neo is probably my personal favourite, for its slim elegance. MeisterSinger have now gone one step further down the ‘slow time’ path with the… Read More ›

• Marking Time – ‘The Clock’ & a horological workshop

  By horologium on April 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Following an AUD$53 million redevelopment, Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art re-opened, at the end of March, with a new exhibition called ‘Marking Time’. Featuring the work of eleven Australian and international artists, it shows the ways in which they visualise… Read More ›

• Luxury watches bought mainly for fashion – China

  By horologium on April 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve written before about China and her watch market but a new report called the ‘China Top Wristwatch Report’, published by the Shanghai-based Fortune Character magazine, sheds some interesting light on some of the motivations behind the massive growth of… Read More ›