As I write this I am watching an old episode of ‘Star Trek : Deep Space Nine’ on Australian free to air tv – yes, truly. Major Kira has discovered that the Bajoran Central Archives show her as having been… Read More ›
Watch Profile
HANDS-ON : Girard-Perregaux’s 1966 Jewellery
Bejewelled watches don’t often make an appearance at Horologium, so today’s post will be of particular interest to those who like a a precious stone or two on their watches. Or in this case, 807 diamonds, to be precise. Meet… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Ball’s Fireman Night Train DLC
Webster Clay Ball (October 6, 1847 – March 6, 1922) was a jeweller and watchmaker in Ohio, and the first jeweller to use the United States Naval Observatory’s time signals i.e. Standard Time. His foray into what would become Ball’s… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Zenith Captain Winsor Annual Calendar Boutique Edition
The recently launched Zenith Captain Winsor Annual Calendar Boutique Edition is a collaboration with Musée International d’Horlogerie (MIH), with whom Zenith has previously collaborated on a similar watch with a different dial. Earlier this year I had the opportunity to… 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 ›
VIDEO : Floating watches and watch repair on board the ISS
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth yesterday after having handed over his command of the International Space Station (ISS) to his friend and crewmate Pavel Vinogradov. At the time of the launch of this this post his cover of… 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 : Glashütte Original re-designs Senator collection
Glashütte Original (GO) have decided to stick close to home and re-launch a newly re-designed Senator collection courtesy of the Panorama Date and Panorama Date Moonphase, both in 40mm sized cases and available in stainless steel or red gold and… Read More ›
SIHH 2013 : CARTIER COMPLICATIONS
Not only did Cartier have the largest ‘booth’ (in fact an entire wing) at SIHH 2013, but they also had the largest number of models to present, both in terms of totally new novelties and variations on previous models. Despite… Read More ›
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