independent watchmakers and brands
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 ›
Think about the newly announced DB28GS Yellow Submarine as a combination of two watches – the DB28GS Diver, and the DB28 Yellow Tones. Their first venture into yellow, created through thermal oxidation of grade 5 titanium, was used in ‘Yellow… Read More ›
Early this year MB&F released an 18k yellow gold variant of their Legacy Machine (LM) Perpetual, a watch originally launched in 2015 in two editions of twenty-five pieces each in 18k 5N+ red gold and Platinum 950 but which expanded… Read More ›
In 2017 HYT launched the H4 Neo, a manually-wound watch with a light source (module) that could be activated on demand. A LED-lit version of the H4, it was an unexpected diversion for a brand known for its fluid timekeeping…. Read More ›
Last year Svend Andersen launched a new collection called ‘Art & Culture’ and with it, a limited edition (twelve pieces) launch model called ‘Vita Vinum’ (‘life wine’ in Latin). It was one of the six finalists in the GPHG 2019… Read More ›
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 ›
The name of De Bethune’s Steel Wheels was inspired by the name of the Rolling Stones’ comeback album, but the newest horological Steel Wheel is not about comebacks but about the brand segueing in a very De Bethune fashion. It… Read More ›
If you had wondered if the ‘green trend’ we’ve mentioned of late would continue, the answer is in the affirmative, and the latest addition is from H. Moser & Cie, in the form of the new Streamliner Centre Seconds. However… Read More ›
For a number of years now, the official custodians of the Moomin legacy have celebrated ‘Moomin’s Day’ on the 9th of August, the date chosen because it is the birthday of writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. Her Moominvalley works are… Read More ›
Laurent Ferrier is marking a decade with the launch of the Classic Origin Opaline, its first piece in a titanium. The new Classic Origin Opaline features the same pebble-inspired case design of the Galet (although if you look at their… Read More ›
