The horological tour de force that was Gérald Genta (1931 – 2011) was responsible for some of the most influential and significant watch designs produced in the modern history of wristwatches. That some of them, and variants based on them,… Read More ›
Gerald Genta
INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days rescheduled to August 2020
In some ways, time has become both something of which we are more acutely aware and simultaneously something from which many feel disconnected from at present, but it was only at the beginning of this month that Geneva Watch Days… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days 2020
With the cancellation of both Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 and Baselworld 2020, a number of brands have decided to hold an event called Geneva Watch Days over the period during which Watches & Wonders was to have taken place…. Read More ›
A look at some ‘jump hour’ watches
Inspired by conversations online with English watch and clock collector AlanL and Sydney enthusiast Danny, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a Jaeger-LeCoultre SIHH 2013 novelties dinner (about which I will cover in a separate post), this post… Read More ›
Gérald Genta
Gérald Genta, the horological legend and man behind the eponymous brand (although no longer associated with it), is responsible for some of the most (and yes this overused word is appropriate) iconic watch designs produced in the 1970s, some of… Read More ›