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A Visit to the Christophe Claret Shop It has been quite a while since I last visited Christophe Claret in Le Locle. When I last visited Claret was a supplier of high end movements and other specialiti

Christophe Claret, the Watches The Claret brand watches, first called to life about 5 years ago with the Dual Tow, is now grouped in 4 collections. 1) Traditional Complication watches 2) Gaming watche

Christophe Claret Press Release PRESS RELEASE Le Locle, Switzerland, October 2014 Christophe Claret delivers the first Margot timepieces He loves me, he loves me not. What hopeless romantic hasnt e

r-watch - Romain Delafontaine We have visited Romain Delafontaine before here . He has experience as a watchmaker with many of the best names in the business, I will just mention AP, F.-P. Journe, Chr

Press release from RGM RGMs Pennsylvania Series 801 Baseball in Enamel (USA, Mount Joy, PA) October 2, 2014  While touring the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA three

The Prix Gaa is a prize awarded by the International Horological Museum (MIH) in La Chaux-de-Fonds, this year for the 20th time. The presentation is always on the last Thursday before the equinox in

Innovation at the Poinon de Genve Timelab in Geneva invited to a presentation of their newest developments for the Poinon de Genve, the Geneva Hallmark. The presentation was made at the Athene, t

David Walter has done another of his marvelous reconstructions of a historical clock. Here his press release with following photos: Here are the photos of my just completed Double Pendulum Table clock

Visiting Arnold and Son, the Watches Last week I posted a few pictures of my visit to La Joux-Perret. We saw the manufacturing capabilities of LJP and some of the finished watch heads that I saw in th

A visit to La Joux-Perret in La Chaux-de-Fonds La Joux-Perret is one of the well established watch industry suppliers supplying many brands. They can develop and/or supply complete movements as well a

Peter Speake-Marin is in the midst of turning his independent shop into an up-and-coming brand. First steps, bringing his many models into a coherient collection structure. We now see 3 collections, t

BaselWorld 2014 - Arnold & Son John Arnold (*1736 in Cornwall) was one of the famous watchmakers of the generation of Abraham-Louis Breguet. His timepieces where instrumental in solving the longitude

BaselWorld 2014 - Urban Jürgensen Fine watchmaking. A shockproof detent escapement. Engine turned and enamel dials. Minute repeater. Urban Jürgensen's watches are a delicatessen to be finely savoured.

BaselWorld 2014 - Kari Voutilainen Kari always knows to amaze. Let's start with the Tourbillon-6. This is a new tourbillon using Kari's double direct impulse escapement. Note the size of the tourbillo

BaselWorld 2014 - Artya Yvan Arpa presented his boundless collection of Artya watches, each a unique piece.

BaselWorld 2014 - Romain Gauthier Romain Gauthier's Logical One is stunning both for its new approach to a constant force mechanism and for its level of finishing. Using traditional elements, but tran

BaselWorld 2014 - 4N We have been following 4N for 4 or 5 years now. From their first presentation at BaselWorld of a electric motor driven model to show the display, through the first prototypes and

BaselWorld 2014 - Louis Erard Louis Erard is a Swiss brand based in Le Noirmont that is producing very attractive, mostly mechanical, watches using reliable mass produced Swiss movements. Their style

BaselWorld 2014 - Xusha Ma Xusha Ma displayed his very charactoristic timepieces at the AHCA stand. Xusha Ma's timepieces are unmistakable and playful. The jump between very organic mother-of-pearl an

BaselWorld 2014 - Beat Haldimann Beat Haldimann showed his H1 flying central tourbillon and H11 central balance watches at BaselWorld this year. The big novelty this year is the shape of the hands. He