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This year Stepan Sarpaneva showed his first movement development the aptly named "Moonment" With its very subtile moon display this watch will be hand made in intimate quantities.

The 1740 Half-Hunter is flat out tremendious. My "Best of Show" for this year. Great design, surperb finishing and super-light with the movement, not just the case in titanium. The tourbillon at 9 and

To start off my BaselWorld reports this year I would like to show you the watch of a new French brand Phenomen. Phenomen is based in Besançon the old French watchmaking capital not far from the Swiss

Konstantin Chaykin's last year has been defined by the success of his "Joker" watch, introduced last year at BaselWorld. This year he showed also a "Clown" watch and a "Halloween" unique piece. Note t

The Grönefeld brothers showed new dials on their Remontoir. Their movement style with the stainless steel bridges remains one of the highlights of independent watchmaking. The guilloché dials come fro

Although we can hardly believe it today, having a clock was once so rare that it was a prestige object for a town to have a tower clock. And all the clocks were “repeaters” so that everyone in the tow

We haven't heard anything from Bernhard Lederer for the last couple of years, but his remarkable watches such as the Blu Tourbillon MT3 below haven't been forgotten. The Blu MT3 from my BaselWorld rep

Schwarz Etienne is a historic watchmaking company, founded as it was in 1902 by Paul Arthur Schwarz and his wife Olga Etienne. Through most of this time they produced movements for other brands. In th

The Armin Strom skeleton tourbillons are for me the essence of the brand touching as they do the history of Armin Strom and his skeleton watches and the consequent use of in house movements in all the

No gaskets? How can that work? It works really? Well yes it does. It depends on precision machining, and doesn't deteriorate with time as gaskets do. Let's take a closer look. For those of you that do

Schwarz Etienne is a watch manufacturer that may be unknown to you, but they have the potential to be an important player in the near future. Schwarz Etienne is actually no stranger in the watch indus

As much as Jacob & Co. is a purveyor of jewels, the Astronomia remains an horological jewel that can't be passed up. Each new version is eye-popping. The Astronomia Flawless has not only that supe

Audemars Piguet is one of the few major watchmaking companies that has been able to remain a family run business. It has retained its worship of quality and fine finishing in the place of the worship

The Grönefeld brothers showed new dial versions and case metals of their award winning 1941 Remontoir and the Parallax tourbillon. Note that among others the 1941 Remontoir won the Best Mens Watch at

Laurent Ferrier showed two new models, the Galet Micro Rotor "Montre Ecole" and the Galet Classic Tourbillon Double F. With the Galet Classic Tourbillon Double F Ferrier for the first time opens the t

In 2017 Urwerk celebrates its 20th birthday. For this celebration URWERK presents 2 new models at the SIHH, the UR-T8 and the UR106 Flower Power The UR-T8 is URWERKs first transformable. By releasing

The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève 2016 will be held tomorrow at the Théâtre du Léman in Geneva. Following is the list of the preselected watches, 6 watches in each of 12 catagories. What are your

A tour de force of modern watchmaking, no pun intended, the Arnold & son Constant Force Tourbillon is a masterful, fully thought through modern dress watch . I had the opportunity to wear this wat

Let's congratulate Ancienne LeBrassus a.k.a. Sebasti án Salvadó to his new venture, opening the brand Coggiola Watches in Rome. Sebasti á n is taking English vintage movements, cleaning them up withou

For the occasion of last Fridays lunar eclipse Louis Moinet introduced its newest limited edition model, the Memoris Red Eclipse. The Observatory of Neuchâtel is the perfect venue for this presention.