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Those of you who have read my posts over the years are familiar with my ongoing wishlists... so-called journeyman watches, timeless design, and desk clocks. Sadly, no matter what I do, the masters of elegant, masculine and mechanical desk clocks/small objets d'art, including Dunhill, Breguet and Jae

In 2014, I finally had some means to purchase "nice" watches, mechanical, not quartz. Before then, I had several quartz watches that I really loved (including two Skagens!), but both broke, and could not be repaired. I did not know enough back then to look for someone to replace the quartz movement,

You don't want to meet Lenny Kravitz? If we can pull him away from being our top sales associate at our new Singapore boutique, he will be at W&W representing both top management, our technical department and our average customer! Having earned my jewelry, oops I mean my watch business expertise

Each time I hear one of her interviews, I leave feeling that I have not learned anything about the future of JLC nor whom it wants to be. Lenny Kravitz embodies JLC? How ridiculous. Does Kravitz buy JLC watches like the rest of us? Or is he just given them? I have never been given a JLC basic watch,

but another original box was nowhere to be found in the hallowed halls of Le Sentier, according to those with whom I spoke/wrote. A small blip to footnote the story, as I do love the watch...

that I bought my steel TTG 1958 from Zegg & C back when they were a JLC AD? To my knowledge, they had the last unsold one of the 800 circa 2016 in their shop in Monaco, which I stumbled upon after many months of searching (thanks to the www), promptly ordered it from across the pond in Arizona a