Romain Jerome, ever the brand searching for something that no-one else will do, whether this be the Titanic, the moon dust or the Eyjafjallajökull (yes I can say it, it’s my sole party trick) watches, has come up with yet… Read More ›
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An interview with Eva Leube
A few weeks ago I blogged an introduction to Eva Leube and her first watch. Here is part two, an interview with Eva, in which she talks about how she came to live in Australia, and more about how she… Read More ›
Eva Leube : An Introduction
(Photo supplied by Eva Leube) The discovery of a new independent watchmaker can come in many ways, but via twitter tends not to be one of them. And so I found myself, in late December 2010, looking at Eva Leube’s… Read More ›
Stephen Forsey in Sydney
Although it wasn’t until 1999 that they began working on a new generation of tourbillons, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have a working relationship going back some two decades. Four years after they started working in earnest on their tourbillon… Read More ›
An interview with Dirk Dornblüth
The origins of Dornblüth watches go back several decades, and start with a dream born of a special kinship with a pocket watch. In 1959, Dieter Dornblüth became rather attached to a sterling silver pocket watch that he’d been repairing…. Read More ›
The Thalassa – no longer just blue
Some of you may have seen one or two photos from Baselworld of an unexpected iteration of Peter Speake-Marin’s striking blue Marin 2 Thalassa, which contains the manual winding in-house calibre SM2. Perhaps like me, you initially thought that one… Read More ›
Minute Repeaters
The January 2011 issue of International Watch had a feature article on repeater watches. They were, with one exception, mechanical watches, and of course as this is a serious complication, the entry level prices were considerable. Most of the big… Read More ›
A bit of Moonshine and some Northern stars from Stepan Sarpaneva
My fondness for Stepan Sarpaneva’s moon continues unabated. Many find it too gloomy or despondent in appearance, but to me it’s a contemplative, poignant, and only slightly mournful moon, reminiscent of Georges Méliès. Finally, after much anticipation, the moon’s latest… Read More ›
