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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The making of a Panerai
The Science Channel’s How it’s Made program, which shows how everyday things are created, recently took a horological bent, with an engaging and educational look at how a watch (in this case a Panerai) is made. Even for those of… Read More ›
Lange Zeitwerk piece unique for Kidz Horizon
For many watch enthusiasts, it is a quiet sort of a hobby (or obsession, in some cases), and in the pre-internet days, this was even more so. The creation of the WWW provided a boon to people interested in watches… Read More ›
A look at a vintage Glycine Airman
Founded in Bienne in 1914 by Eugène Meylan, for a company whose modern history has been closely tied to functional and “tool” watches, it is interesting to note that Glycine’s early commitment was to create the smallest movements possible for… 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 ›
Zoomin Watch concept
This is about a watch that is only an idea at the moment. It’s not haute horology and it has probably barely rate a blip on anyone’s watch radar, but I saw it and I quite like it. It’s called… Read More ›
Hands on with the Technomarine Cruise Steel Camouflage
TechnoMarine is a well-known Geneva based brand whose focus is on casual watches and which is known for a particularly strong use of bold colours. In fact one of their selling points about the Cruise Collection is encouraging people to… Read More ›
A review of the iPod LunaTik
One of the coolest horological products to reach the market recently is the LunaTik, a conversion kit that turns the latest touch-screen Apple iPod Nano into a wrist watch. This is clearly not haute horlogerie, but nevertheless it is interesting,… Read More ›
The Protana – the original ‘spy watch’
Who isn’t intrigued by even the mere mention of spy and espionage devices? Whether we’re talking about the over-the-top comedy of Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone, the reality of miniature cameras hidden in cigarette packets, or even the poison tipped umbrella… 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 ›
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