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Armin Strom's Watches, the Beauty of Skeletons Don Corson, December 2008 Part 1 Armin Strom has been skeletonizing and engraving watches for the last 40 years. His pieces have found entry in collectio

A Visit to HAUTLENCE, Neuchâtel, Suisse Part 1 Don Corson It is Tuesday morning, the farmers market at the Place des Halles in Neuchâtel is not really bursting with customers, but it is also not the w

A Visit to De Bethune, Perfecting Traditional Watchmaking Part 1- The Manufacture Don Corson The manufacture De Bethune has its administration and R&D in this building in La Chaux, not far from the Fr

Sneak Preview – The Speake-Marin caliber SM2 Don Corson, 30.10.2008 Yesterday I had the pleasure to visit Peter Speake-Marin in his workshop to get a first view of his new caliber the SM2, a caliber t

Daniela Speake-Marin was kind enough to send me a photo of the latest watch with a Makie dial from the Speake-Marin shop: Visionary Lion Don

A visit to Montres Romain Gauthier Don Corson, August 2008 The Vallée de Joux has one of the worlds highest incidences of watchmakers. On the way to visit Romain Gauthier in Le Sentier, I drive throug

Casemaking at Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie Today I will be visiting Thomas Prescher to see their CNC machine making case parts and learn how this is done. After arriving in Twann by train I realis

nternational chronometry contest 2009 The first chronometry trial of the 21 st century will be held next year. The following is the invitation for contestants. Thanks to Magnus Bosse for the heads-up!

Today I had my dial printed, here a little pictural introduction to dial printing. Dial printing is traditionally done by transfer printing, also known as tampon printing. The ink is transfered from a

Off for an Horological weekend... Leaving home To reach here The headquarters of the British Horological Institute in Upton , England. The British Horological Institute was founded in 1858 as the resu

Richard Mille is showing it's collection in Geneva at the Hotel Les Bergues in the Presidential Suite. This is what I got to see. RM 11 titanium RM11 rose gold New RM20 Pocket Watch (a non-working moc

Thomas Prescher Haute Hologerie took a big step to full independence from suppliers at the end of last year by more than doubling their surface area. This has allowed them to separate the machine shop

Vincent Calabrese, one of the founders of the AHCI 25 years ago, looks back on a long and important career as an independent in the watch industry. His designs signaled the beginning of the tourbillon