During ‘Geneva week’ before the start of SIHH 2014 we visited a couple of brands, of which De Bethune was the first. As it was also the brand that I first visited during my inaugural ‘Geneva week’ in 2013 it… Read More ›
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SIHH 2014 : A.LANGE & SÖHNE Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar ‘Terraluna’
This year the Lange booth at SIHH 2014 was dominated by another outsized watch, fit for a particularly large Ent, if Ents had wrists, wore watches and were the slightest bit interested in perpetual calendars. With its own display area… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : Linde Werdelin’s Oktopus II Moon Gold and ‘try before you buy’
Following on from my previous post covering two Linde Werdelin SpidoLite II Titanium models, this second post is about a watch from the other main collection wing of Linde Werdelin’s offerings, the Oktopus II Moon Gold. As the next ste… Read More ›
Moonmachines at Cara & Co
You may have already read my post about my afternoon of MB&F Machine Madness. Well this is the second part of my MB&F Marathon Friday, otherwise known as ‘Max Büsser eats half of Australia’s coat of arms’. But more about… Read More ›
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire LE
Sometimes, you don’t realise that there’s a beautiful watch that you’ve read about floating tantalisingly nearby. Then someone offers you the chance to take a look at it. Firstly, what are the ‘Duomètre’ watches? Introduced in 2007, the basic idea… Read More ›
Baselworld 2012 : Jaquet Droz Eclipse – the ‘dark’ and the ‘light’
A brand that still somehow seems to fly under the ‘major league’ radar, Jaquet Droz has a quite distinctive style, particularly for its dress watches, but two of JD’s new Baselworld 2012 models, part of their ‘Majestic Beijing’ collection, seem… Read More ›
Three years on : Seiko’s Limited Edition Spring Drive Moon Phase
Sometimes I like to look back on a watch a few years after its release, especially if, at the time, it was much heralded for technical and aesthetic reasons, and an award winner to boot, to see how it’s faring,… 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 ›
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