independent watchmakers and brands
Last year, Geneva based watchmaer Antoine Preziuso presented the pièce unique ‘Trillion Tourbillon of Tourbillons’, a variant of his Tourbillon of Tourbillons originally launched in 2015. A ‘high jewellery’ riff on the original, the Trillion Tourbillon of Tourbillons featured three… Read More ›
The Austrian brand Habring², founded by Maria and Richard Habring in 2004, is marking its 15th birthday with a new model, and its most complicated to date. The Perpetual-Doppel features a monopusher split second chronograph combined with a perpetual calendar…. Read More ›
Historically significant figures in English watchmaking such as Tompion, Mudge, Arnold, Earnshaw and Harrison are well known amongst watch and clock enthusiasts. Their works are in museums and significant collections, and if their pieces come up for sale, they command… Read More ›
Earlier this year we covered some new dial options that Kari Voutilainen launched for 2019. Today is another new ‘dial option’, so to speak, but one that is not about materials or decoration and the Comblémine dial workshop. In fact… Read More ›
Auction house Phillips, in association with Bacs & Russo, is opening a watch boutique within its Mayfair London premises. It will not only be used to exhibit watches that are to be auctioned, but will also feature watches that can… Read More ›
At the SIHH 2019 H.Moser & Cie released the Concept Black Minute Repeater in a Swiss Alp case. Now, at Baselworld 2019, the minute repeater and tourbillon combination is revisited in a different physical form – the new Endeavour Concept… Read More ›
Hautlence are a brand that is not above a bit of fun, and being unexpected. Last year they launched the HL Kinetic table clock, a time piece which displayed hours and minutes via spheres in two transparent columns. Each black… Read More ›
In his first launches for 2019, Kari Voutilainen focused not on any new model, but on new sizing (the ones in today’s post are 44mm and 37.5mm) and dial materials/ patterns for his Vingt-8. Today, we are sharing some of… Read More ›
Ochs und junior are known for approaching the telling of time in a very pared back form, with distinctive aesthetics to match. It is difficult not to be able to tell that a watch is from the brand, even… Read More ›
In 2015 De Bethune launched their most ‘sporty’ watch to date, called the DB28GS (Grand Sport). Given the dressy and incredibly highly finished watches for which they are known, it was a ‘sports watch’ (some even called it a diving… Read More ›
