Do things come in threes? Humans look for patterns (‘apophenia’, coined by Klaus Conrad, is the tendency to see connections and meaningful links between unrelated things). As as a creative device, the number three has long been a popular one,… Read More ›
Today’s post is about something very local, a clock that has been in Sydney for a long time, but about which not everyone may be aware – a Breguet regulator clock that sits quietly right in the centre of the… Read More ›
Junghans is commemorating its longstanding Max Bill partnership with a new special edition timepiece set for 2019 that consists of a watch and a table clock with a mechanical eight day movement. The back of each case is decorated with… Read More ›
The move by brands into developing closer direct relationships with their end clients/ owners continues, with Jaeger-LeCoultre announcing a new ‘Care Program’ aimed at developing personalised relationships through a digital platform. Later this month the brand’s customers (whether through brand… Read More ›
Last Friday TAG Heuer launched ten exhibitions worldwide under the ‘Heuer Globetrotter’ banner, bringing together important historical pieces from their museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds and from collectors local to each participating locale. All up, there are four hundred watches, timepieces… Read More ›
Sometimes, you get lucky. So far this year I have been fortunate enough to have seen two very singular and remarkable pieces of automata, their creations separated by almost 250 years. The newer one, by Van Cleef & Arpels, tells… Read More ›
The latest MB&F and L’Epée collaboration, Destination Moon, uses the latter’s eight-day movement to power a rocket. Developed specifically for Destination Moon, L’Epée’s eight-day movement follows the basic engineering of a real spaceship. the power for Destination Moon comes from… Read More ›
Recently, Breguet Australia held an unusual function in Sydney entitled ‘Explorateurs Espions’, a preview of a travelling exhibition currently at the S.A. Maritime Museum (other states and territories to follow) called “The Art of Science – Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804”. Funded… Read More ›
MB&F’s continued collaboration with clockmaker Epée 1839 to realise Max Büsser’s horological dreams introduced its latest manifestion a few months ago in the form of a ‘self-named’ (of sorts, but more on that later) 40cm high robot-inspired clock called Balthazar… Read More ›
Today we bring you something a bit different and, dare I say, worth travelling to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for – a 10ft high performance art clock by Dutch designer Maarten Baas. The latest edition of his ‘Real Time’ series, it… Read More ›
