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[ooyala code=”NhZzlkbjpIAXOXrLEU_No5wyxzPBysiE” player_id=”906938bb2f324c93a733b2fb3b34b260″ width=”750″ height=”590″] Terra Cielo Mare is a relatively new under the radar brand that impressed us with their limited edition Tazzoli watch. Hear Luca Fontana, owner of the brand, introduce this watch as well as other pieces in the range, including the watch worn by Brad Pitt’s character in the movie “World […]
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Yesterday afternoon I had a chat over coffee with one of the luminaries of the Singapore watch-collecting world – and on his hand glinted something black, absolutely unique, and in all respects a stunner. “Some thing new?” I asked, readying my camera phone, hoping that the watch would soon migrate from his wrist to mine.Read More
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Diamonds on a Bell & Ross sound a bit like diamonds on a Panerai: not done often nor suited for the style of watch. Yet Panerai did do a limited edition with diamond set numerals, their only official endeavor that incorporated these precious gemstones, and Bell & Ross, well, they have also embraced diamonds – […]
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Chronoswiss has always been a brand that was able to give a distinct cachet to its watches. Its elaborate styling takes you into a world where it isn’t quite difficult to imagine yourself as a master wondering through your romantic, stylish castle, or see yourself behind the wheel of an Jaguar E-type, taking on the […]
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There are some combinations that can only result in greatness, and one example will be that of Vacheron Constantin with Edgar Degas and Grand Feu Grisaille enamel. It definitely resulted in something magical. Most people are familiar with Degas’ paintings about Ballerinas, where his soft but deliberate brushstrokes captured the essence of ballet in a mystical […]
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With a reputation for being the “watchmaker’s watchmaker”, Jaeger-LeCoultre has certainly demonstrated a wide range of competencies in aspects of watchmaking ranging from movement innovations to the decorative arts. As a brand, it certainly stands alone in being able to fulfil any horological dream that one can care to conjure. Any encounter with the watches […]
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In many ways, the Hommage collection, centrepiece range this year for Roger Dubuis, was all about celebrating the roots of the company. Suitably decorated, the Roger Dubuis stand at SIHH featured life-size watchmakers, each holding a bell jar containing a watch from the Hommage Collection. These represented watchmakers from the past who, in large and […]
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Name a watch brand that doesn’t have a tourbillon in its collection? They’re still out there, but their number seems to decrease every year. Even though many brands don’t make their tourbillons in-house, it does illustrate how technically complicated movements have become more and more a part of the general landscape in the watch world, […]
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Special 1815 Langes do not come by frequently. And one which is made with a special complication for to celebrate a retailer’s Anniversary is even more special. The Kalenderwoche, or calender week is one example. The use of week of the year, is a rather German business tool…many German business people would look up theirRead More
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After being showcased at BaselWorld 2013, Gucci Timepieces Artisan Corner traveled to Geneva to demonstrate how the brand’s 1921 and Bamboo collections are created. One of Gucci’s talented craftsmen was present throughout the evening to explain how he crafts both collections with either leather or bamboo. Gucci Bamboo Collection The Bamboo timepiece is made out of a […]
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The A. Lange & Söhne Grand Complication is a watch that generated excitement and controversy almost immediately, and not without reason. First, there was the manner of its introduction –it was the company’s star debut at the 2013 SIHH, and yet almost no one was able to actually see it. Then there was the size […]
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Sometimes a watch manufacturer releases a model that seems to catch the spirit of the market so well, that it transcends to the status of an icon. Such a thing happened for Piaget in 1979, when they first introduced the Piaget Polo. This all gold watch with integrated bracelet, captured, as no other watch, the luxurious and […]
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Omega celebrated its pioneering spirit and dedication to the art of watchmaking with the official opening of the ‘Omega Co-Axial Exhibition’. Held in partnership with Cortina Watch, the event commemorated the state-of-the-industry technology found within Omega’s exquisite timepieces. Guests were taken through the brand’s incredible history in innovation through a series of guided tours and dazzling […]
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OMEGA unveiled the new Seamaster Diver ETNZ Limited Edition timepiece at a special event with Emirates Team New Zealand Skipper – and Brand Ambassador – Dean Barker on Wednesday in San Francisco. Designed to commemorate the 34th America’s Cup and celebrate OMEGA’s partnership with Emirates Team New Zealand, the new timepiece was presented to Barker […]
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This limited edition timepiece was conceptualized and created for The Hour Glass Singapore to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Freak which won an Innovation Prize award in 2001. The Freak was a brainchild of the late CEO Rolf Schnyder and Dr. Ludwig Oechslin. If I am not mistaken, this is one of the first […]
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Glashütte Original celebrates women in all their facets with a completely new collection of feminine timepieces. The dazzling models in the “Pavonina” collection are as impressive and seductive as the contemporary, confident women for whom they were created. Pavonina – from the Latin for peacock, pavoninus, evokes luminous bursts of colour and glittering beauty. The […]
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“I’ve heard tell what you imagine sometimes comes true” – Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Of all the complicated watches I’ve owned or worn - despite the varying claims of their makers that their dual oscillators, tourbillons, double tourbillons, resonance, triple tourbillons, constant-force mechanism, chain and fusée, ultra-light honeycomb baseplates and so on, […]
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We don’t think about magnetic fields often and though they are thoroughly pervasive in our high technology environments, we tend to think of magnets as these little buttons of fun used to “hover and drag” metal cars across table tops. It’s time we grow out of childish notions and understand that magnetic fields are generated […]
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A Conversation with Vartan Sirmakes, Co-founder of Franck Muller It is impossible to examine the rise of Franck Muller Watchland as one of the most technically creative, fully integrated and totally verticalized manufactures in Swiss watchmaking without tapping into the brilliant mind of the brand’s co-founder, Vartan Sirmakes. Sirmakes got his start with a case-manufacturing […]
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Glashutte Original is one of the few truly self sustaining watchmakers in the industry. The value addition and self reliance was born out of neccessity, when they operated as GUB during the GDR times. And continued to the modern GO re-founded by Pfeiffer in the early 1990s. For BaselWorld 2012, GO announced a very complicatedRead More
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Its Singapore’s National Day! To celebrate, I am showing my personal Datograph, owned for almost 10 years, and gone back to the factory for a full service about a year ago. The dial side… The movement side is mesmerising…I think this is bar none the best chronograph movement ever made: Detail showing the movement.
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