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Over coffee one morning, while talking with Robert Greubel, I asked him where he saw the future of Greubel Forsey. After all, in the space of five years, the firm had essentially grown from two watchm

Giles and Nick English (Founders of Bremont Watches). The very rare Bremont Alt-1 Z US Test Pilot School Chronograph. Yup – you have to qualify from the school to be eligible to buy one watch! Name an

If you believe that life is a series of random events, then Nick and Giles English (co-founders of Bremont Watches) are the men you need around. It was just such a random event in 1999 when they had t

May be it’s the effect of getting older, been to one too many watch fairs, and am now a little punch drunk, but so many brands leave me jaundiced with their offerings. I still hear my old house master

Greubel Forsey did not disappoint at the Basel World Fair in 2009. One new form for the Quadruple, one new Invention Piece, a new Technique series debuting with the 30 degree Double Tourbillon. Also i

Testing Time: Explaining Greubel Forsey's EWT - Experimental Watch Technology. Spot the difference? Two 24 Second Incline tourbillons with different performances under the EWT. Which one gave the opti

Rather than join the madding crowd at either Geneva or Basel, Richard Mille stayed close to home (literally) and held the showing of new models this year at the Plaza Athenee on Avenue Montaigne in Pa

Not A, but THE wristwatch. The Beyer Museum holds as one of their treasures a timepiece that I regard as the nearest thing possible to the perfect watch. The simplest of dials: nothing but the time in

London is a city of continual change. For the latter half of the twentieth century, Fleet Street was thought of as the centre of the English newspaper industry. But turn the clock back 300 years, and

If Aladdin had been a WIS, he would have buried his swag here. It is all too easy to miss the Beyer Museum. Located in the slightly less fashionable watch centre that is Zurich, located in the basemen

The 1950’s saw notable achievements for Rolex. They went from the heights of the earth, atop of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary; and to the depths of the ocean in the Mariana Trench with Jacques