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 ›
Clocks
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 ›
INDUSTRY NEWS : Jaeger-LeCoultre launches Care Program with 8 year warranty
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 ›
TAG HEUER : ‘Heuer Globetrotter’ exhibition
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 ›
Forgetting about time : two extraordinary automata
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 ›