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• HANDS-ON : Peter Roberts Grand Complication 5 ‘Concentrique’

  By horologium on July 8, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Historically significant figures in English watchmaking such as Tompion, Mudge, Arnold, Earnshaw and Harrison are well known amongst watch and clock enthusiasts. Their works are in museums and significant collections, and if their pieces come up for sale, they command… Read More ›

• NEW : Zenith revives the El Primero A384

  By horologium on July 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As has been widely discussed this year, 2019 is a fifty year landmark for a number of brands. One of the most significant of these is, of course, that of the El Primero. Throughout this year, Zenith have been marking… Read More ›

• NEW : Frederique Constant Classic Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar Manufacture Blue

  By horologium on June 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  You may have been thinking that there could not possibly be any more blue perpetual calendars this year, but you would have been wrong. We are sharing another one with you today not just to illustrate this small 2019 trend,… Read More ›

• KARI VOUTILAINEN : 28Ti

  By horologium on June 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Earlier this year we covered some new dial options that Kari Voutilainen launched for 2019. Today is another new ‘dial option’, so to speak, but one that is not about materials or decoration and the Comblémine dial workshop. In fact… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : MB&F HM9 Flow ‘Air’

  By horologium on June 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Although launched last year, the first Horological Machine 9 Flow, ‘Air’, only finally reached its Australian retailer The Hour Glass (Sydney) this year. Having not had our usual opportunity to see it earlier due to unexpected circumstances, the delay has… Read More ›

• HANDS-ON : Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Perpetual Enamel White Gold

  By horologium on June 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  At the beginning of this year Jaeger-LeCoultre announced a micro collection of three new limited edition models in their Master Ultra Thin line. The Tourbillon (fifty pieces), Perpetual Calendar (one hundred pieces), and Moon (one hundred pieces), all in white… Read More ›

• NEWS : Richemont pilots blockchain authentication with Vacheron Constantin

  By horologium on June 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  You may recall an announcement last year from the Richemont Group about their plan to use blockchain for their supply chain, to track goods and materials, and fight counterfeiting. In an update to this, Vacheron Constantin has been chosen by… Read More ›

• NEW : Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin

  By horologium on June 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  At the SIHH 2018 Audemars Piguet showed off the RD#2, their second Concept watch. A prototype with a thickness of 6.30mm, it became the new record holder for the thinnest automatic perpetual calendar wristwatc. This was in large part thanks… Read More ›

• NEW : Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Nageurs de Combat and Fifty Fathoms Barakuda

  By horologium on June 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Two years ago Blancpain released the Tribute to Fifty Fathoms MIL-SPEC, a modern interpretation with a contemporary version of the water tightness indicator. This feature was present in the MIL-SPEC 1 (MILitary SPECification) model of 1957-58. It was based on… Read More ›

• AUCTION : Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch

  By horologium on June 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Tamerlane, real name Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas, was a 14th century Turco-Mongol warlord and conqueror whose empire-building across Asia Minor was characterised by widespread destruction, burning, looting, massacres, and mass rape. His name was also the title of Edgar Allan… Read More ›