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• An interview with Eva Leube

  By horologium on July 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  A few weeks ago I blogged an introduction to Eva Leube and her first watch. Here is part two, an interview with Eva, in which she talks about how she came to live in Australia, and more about how she… Read More ›

• A look at a vintage Glycine Airman

  By horologium on June 27, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  Founded in Bienne in 1914 by Eugène Meylan, for a company whose modern history has been closely tied to functional and “tool” watches, it is interesting to note that Glycine’s early commitment was to create the smallest movements possible for… Read More ›

• A wearable sundial from Nomos Glashütte

  By horologium on June 12, 2011 • ( 8 )

  

  Nomos Glashütte is a German Manufacture that does not get much coverage compared to many other brands that one could argue are similar, but it is a brand with a lot of admirers amongst collectors and enthusiasts of both of… Read More ›

• Eva Leube : An Introduction

  By horologium on June 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  (Photo supplied by Eva Leube) The discovery of a new independent watchmaker can come in many ways, but via twitter tends not to be one of them. And so I found myself, in late December 2010, looking at Eva Leube’s… Read More ›

• Footballer gives £36,000 watch to waiter

  By horologium on May 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Most watch enthusiasts know about Vladimir Putin’s penchant for expensive timepieces and of how, on 15 September 2009, the then Russian Prime Minister handed over his Blancpain Léman Aqua Lung Grande Date to Russian factory worker Viktor Zagaevsky when the… Read More ›

• Stephen Forsey in Sydney

  By horologium on May 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Although it wasn’t until 1999 that they began working on a new generation of tourbillons, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have a working relationship going back some two decades. Four years after they started working in earnest on their tourbillon… Read More ›

• Zoomin Watch concept

  By horologium on May 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This is about a watch that is only an idea at the moment. It’s not haute horology and it has probably barely rate a blip on anyone’s watch radar, but I saw it and I quite like it. It’s called… Read More ›

• Hands on with the Technomarine Cruise Steel Camouflage

  By horologium on May 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  TechnoMarine is a well-known Geneva based brand whose focus is on casual watches and which is known for a particularly strong use of bold colours. In fact one of their selling points about the Cruise Collection is encouraging people to… Read More ›

• A review of the iPod LunaTik

  By horologium on April 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the coolest horological products to reach the market recently is the LunaTik, a conversion kit that turns the latest touch-screen Apple iPod Nano into a wrist watch. This is clearly not haute horlogerie, but nevertheless it is interesting,… Read More ›

• An interview with Dirk Dornblüth

  By horologium on April 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The origins of Dornblüth watches go back several decades, and start with a dream born of a special kinship with a pocket watch. In 1959, Dieter Dornblüth became rather attached to a sterling silver pocket watch that he’d been repairing…. Read More ›