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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.

It has been several years now, but still, in the competition for mechanical peotry, no-one has gotten even close to the finesse or the dance of the 3-axis tourbillon in the Jacob Astronomia. And throu

Louis Moinet is a small Swiss brand making about 500 watches a year. Their namesake, Louis Moinet, was a watchmaker, sculptor and painter whose timepieces were bought by Napoléon Bonaparte. He was the

The watches from Arnold keep growing on me more and more each year. Each model has its own manufacture movement. The Nebula is new this year, its symetrical skeleton movement very attractive. The Eigh

Sinn, watchmakers in Frankfurt am Main, are well known as makers of down to earth tool watches. A great relationship of quality to price and the use of advanced materials charactorise their models. Th

Akrivia is the newest Swiss independent wachmaker. During the Geneva Watch Week this year they invited to visit their new shop in the Geneva city. My first encounter with Akrivia was 2 years ago when

Louis Moinet exhibited at the Beau Rivage hotel along with the Manufacture Royale. This year Louis Moinet is celebrating the 200th anniversery of the the invention in Paris 1816 by Louis Moinet. The f

With the opening of the Carée des Horlogers at the SIHH this year there are less brands exhibiting in the Geneva hotels. But there are still several worth looking at. The Manufacture Royale, claiming

New for the SIHH 2016, De Bethune presented the DB25 World Traveler and the Dream Watch 5 Meteorite. The DB25 World Traveler is a two timezone watch, the "home" zone shown with a 24 hour dial track by

A Geneva based brand, it was clear that MB&F wouldn't be able to let an opportunity like the SIHH pass by. And we got some nice things to see. The watch to see is the HM6-SV. The HM6, introduced l

Those dials just keep getting better since Kari has all the guilloché in house. Take a look.

Starting out with the AHCI members at the Carré des Horlogers let's see the work of Felix Baumgartner and his brand Urwerk. Urwerk presented a new version of their EMC watch which includes an internal