Many of the well-known fashion houses have been producing watches for years, most of them without horological distinction, their productions being regarded as just ‘fashion’ pieces. This seems to be changing of late with some interesting, not to say innovative,… Read More ›
For a company that has only been in existence since 2001, MeisterSinger has managed to do quite well, picking up awards here and there for their designs, and becoming arguably the most well known modern proponent of single-handed watches, also… Read More ›
HISTORY The term ‘chronometer’ was coined by English watchmaker and writer Jeremy Thacker in 1714 in his pamphlet ‘The Longitudes Examin’d’ for clocks used to calculate longitude on marine voyages. He invented a marine chronometer, a clock encased within a… Read More ›
December 2009 was the 40th anniversary of the world’s first Quartz wristwatch, the Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ. Based on a quartz crystal oscillator (an electrical signal with an extremely precise frequency), its importance is acknowledged by its registration on the… Read More ›
The Aristo Flieger Sextant has its roots in a German sextant watch used by Wernher von Braun and his team at the Peenemünde rocket proving ground (“Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemuende”) in the early 1940s. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March… Read More ›
Today we are looking at a slightly older piece. First Introduced to Patek’s range in 1999, and now discontinued, this classic Ref. 5054 is the rose gold model. It was also available in white gold and Platinum. Interestingly, the case is… Read More ›
