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A visit with Hautlence in La Chaux-de-Fonds As you certainly remember we have been following Hautlence watches and their CEO Guillaume Tetu now for several years. As many other manufacturers they have

A visit to Habring2, Richard and Maria Habring Don Corson, October 2012 While there are many independent watchmakers close to home in Switzerland there is always the time when one wants to get out to

Armin Strom Tourbillon - First Presentation in Interlaken Armin Strom is a young watch manufacturer in Biel Switzerland. Although founded only 6 years ago they are already presenting their new tourbil

The URWERK UR-210 - Partly human Geneva – September 2012 The UR-210: Never has a timepiece displayed such feedback and attachment to its owner. In a first for a wristwatch, URWERK’s UR-210 highlights

A visit to Angular Momentum - Manu Propria by Don Corson, May 2012 Seeing the inventiveness and production of Angular Momentum - Manu Propria it is hard to believe that this really is a one man shop..

News from Maria & Richard Habring We take great pleasure in presenting to you our innovations for the year 2012. Please find enclosed pictures and press release text on our latest Habring²product: Our

H. Moser at BaselWorld 2012 Moser presented their first automatic watch this year, the Meridian-Dual Time. Other than that the evolution of their well known models. One piece of news that many PuristS

Linde Werdelin at BaselWorld 2012 I had never really understood Linde Werdelin before this visit. The first reason being that comics do not speak to me and their advertising is all in comic book style

Nautische Instrumente Mühle at BaselWorld 2012 A brand that is not evoqued very often, but is certainly worthy, is Nautische Instrumente Mühle (Mühle Nautical Instruments) from Glasshütte. Their histo

Armin Strom at BaselWorld 2012 Continuing forward with their strategy to eventually sell watches with only in-house movements, sooner rather than later, Armin Strom used the last year to refine their

Hautlence at BaselWorld 2012 Hautlence has been through a difficult year 2011 and is now picking up speed again with new investors, most notably Mr. Georges-Henri Meylan, ex-CEO of AP. I think that th

Roger Smith - BaselWorld 2012 Roger Smith is proudly continuing to carry the flame of George Daniels. Of modern English watchmaking at its finest. I met up with Roger at the fair and he had 2 watches

BaselWorld Guessing Game A little pass time for you, a wrist shot guessing game. Your task; 1) pick one of the 24 pictures below 2) write a reply to this post including the following information: - nu

Tim and Bart Grönefeld present the “One Hertz Platinum” The world's first independent dead seconds series wristwatch goes platinum Introducing the “One Hertz Platinum” The world's first independent de

Thomas Prescher has started a new series of 3 watches; " Nemo’s Trypticron" The first is called the "Nemo Sailer". Here the first press pictures. Some preliminary specs: Movement Clients choice Oscill

Heritage Watch Manufactory Pre-Basel Contest BaselWorld time is coming up soon. From March 8th to the 15th the world will again pilgrim to Basel to see what the watch and jewelry brands have readied f

Pre-premier of the 4N Digital Carrousel Watch François Quentin is a designer with ideas and perseverance. He started his adventure in watchmaking with Hautlence in Neuchâtel working on the design of t

Clerc at the GTE 2012 Clerc Geneva is a brand founded over 100 years ago in Geneva and still in the family, presently headed by Gérald Clerc, and has recently had success with diving watches. The Hydr