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 ›
We all know the background. Omega’s relationship with NASA dates back to 1965, when the Speedmaster was declared “flight qualified for all manned space missions”. It went (literally) upwards and onwards from there. The relationship between Snoopy and things lunar… Read More ›
In 2015 Vacheron Constantin launched the Heures Créatives collection, composed at the time of four watches (three – two of which were strap/ bracelets of the same model – with pavé diamond dials, and one with a white mother-of-pearl dial)… Read More ›
We have had the ’something new’ from Cartier, and today is about the ‘something old’ – the relaunching of the Cartier de Pasha. As a collection, Cartier’s Pasha in the modern form was introduced in 1985, but its name and… Read More ›
The horological tour de force that was Gérald Genta (1931 – 2011) was responsible for some of the most influential and significant watch designs produced in the modern history of wristwatches. That some of them, and variants based on them,… 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 ›
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 ›
So if the green of firs wasn’t quite the green for you, and you had also been looking for something less dressy and with a ‘social’ component as well, this may tick your boxes. Blancpain has released the new fifty… Read More ›
However you felt about them, and they generated some strong views, one of last year’s most talked-about releases was that of the CODE 11.59 pieces from Audemars Piguet. It was made clear that this was not to be a one-off,… Read More ›
If you had thought that there would be only one cocktail-related watch release this year you would have been wrong. But unlike the Angelus pieces, these new limited edition pieces from Seiko are more easily acquired. They may be a… Read More ›
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