Today’s featured watch is not a watch that you happen across every day. Nor every month, for that matter. Having heard that it was newly arrived at Sydney boutique J.Farren-Price, I grabbed the opportunity to look at the ‘ne plus… Read More ›
Limited Editions
‘Shades of Grey’ from Grieb & Benzinger
Grieb & Benzinger are a German brand best known for their skeletonised watches, some of which use vintage movements (there have also been watches under the ‘Benzinger’ brand). They have just announced a new collection of white gold watches called… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Girard-Perregaux Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges Diamond-Set
It started with a pocket watch. The three gold bridges movement has been an enduring feature of Girard-Perregaux’s high-end timepieces since Constant Girard’s obsession with the tourbillon lead to the production of his ‘tourbillon with three nickel bridges’ pocket watch…. Read More ›
LAUNCH EVENT : Oris Royal Flying Doctor Service Limited Edition
You may recall my previous post on the new Oris Flying Doctor LE. I now have some ‘in the metal’ thoughts about it to share with you, thanks to an invitation to its launch at Gregory Jewellers in Sydney. This… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : with Urwerk’s Zeit Device
When is a pocket watch not a pocket watch? When even its creators don’t use the term but call it “a grand über complication”. Oh, and there’s also when the ‘pocket’ watch can’t actually fit into a pocket. We are… Read More ›
An Explosive Encounter : the C3H5N3O9
MB&F and URWERK aren’t strangers to Horologium, and the combination of their quirky and at often groundbreaking approach to timepieces last year courtesy of the C3H5N3O9 Nitroglycerine Experiment ZR102 was unexpected and generated a lot of buzz, but also paid… Read More ›
EXCLUSIVE : ‘Uniikki’ – a ‘pièce unique’ from Stepan Sarpaneva
Of all the abused words in the English language the word ‘unique’ is currently one of the most assaulted. Thrown around as though it is going out of style, it is applied with reckless abandonment to things of which there… Read More ›
Oris Royal Flying Doctor Service Limited Edition
not-for-profit organisation supported by the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments as well as corporate and community donations, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is not only the most comprehensive aero-medical service in the world and a crucial part of the… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2013 : Hublot’s Antikythera SunMoon watch
At Baselworld last year Hublot presented the groundbreaking ‘Tribute to the Antikythera Mechanism’ movement, reproducing the mechanism in miniature to wristwatch dimensions and adding to it hours, minutes and a tourbillon. This year during Baselworld 2013 they proved that 2012… Read More ›
BASELWORLD 2013 : Vulcain’s retrotastic Nautical Seventies
Vulcain, most well-known for its Cricket alarm watches, has launched a faithful modern replica of their Cricket Nautical from 1970. The first Nautical models were launched back in 1961; these watches were not only capable of going down to 300m… Read More ›
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