LVMH has announced the acquisition of Swiza, owner of L’Epée 1839. The Swiss clock and mechanical objet d’art maker (notably music boxes) had been acquired by Swiza in 2008. A clockmaking company that, in its Swiza era, expanded its… Read More ›
L’Epée 1839
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 ›
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 ›
Cnidarian dreams: MB&F’s HM7 Aquapod
By #thewatchnerd [Today’s post is by our London-based partner #thewatchnerd, who attended SIHH 2017 at the invitation of Jaeger-LeCoultre U.K. #thewatchnerd’s post is being simultaneously posted on his site and is replicated here in its entirety. Photos are by @initialjh if… Read More ›
MB&F : Sherman, little brother of Melchior
In what has become a ritual of sorts we paid a visit to M.A.D. Gallery Geneva last week. Usually the visit is after SIHH, but this year, it was on the Sunday before the start of the fair, at which… Read More ›
MB&F : Melchior the mechanical robot clock
In thinking about this newly launched mechanical art from MB&F one wonders whether words are, to some degree, superfluous. The connection between Melchior and someone who looks at it is of course partly to do with his mechanical wonder but… Read More ›
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