Renamed from the Clock Tower to Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, the most well known clock in the world, its bells and the tower in which it resides, are simply known as Big… Read More ›
Clocks
NEW: Alain Silberstein x Philippe Lebru
Following the recent Alain Silberstein collaborative effort with Louis Erard, today we bring you another new Silberstein timepiece collaboration – this time with Philippe Lebru, the founder and director of the UTINAM Besançon clock manufacture. The stainless steel, brass and… Read More ›
L’ÉPÉE 1839: Time Flies
Clockmaker L’Epée 1839 has collaborated with Juliette Lefèvrem a graduate of Switzerland’s École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) to create the new ‘Time Flies’ table clock, inspired by 1930s aircraft. Coming in four different variants of 99 pieces each, it… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Ulysse Nardin UFO
Today’s new Watches & Wonders 2021 launch continues on a ‘historical marine origins’ theme linked to our last post about a brand whose namesake after which it is named, John Arnold, is of course, one of the most significant watchmakers… Read More ›
NEWS: Breguet becomes patron of French National Navy Museum
In a very fitting partnership, Breguet has announced their new status as a patron of the Musée national de la Marine in Paris, part of which includes the creation of a new room when the museum re-opens, after a four… Read More ›
EXHIBITION: “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”
From Tuesday 27 October until Sunday 13 December 2020 the History of Science Museum, Oxford, is hosting an exhibition on time and time-keeping called “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”. It is presented by the History… Read More ›
CHANEL: Coco clock
One of the releases that may have passed you by this year is a clock, and it comes from Chanel. Unlike their watches, which are widely known and popular, the brand isn’t usually associated with this sort of timepiece (apart… Read More ›
NEW: MB&F TriPod
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 ›
SYDNEY : Breguet mean-time regulator clock
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 ›
NEW : Junghans Max Bill Edition Set 2019
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 ›