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Star Ferry - Hong Kong This scene immediately evokes the flavour of Hong Kong: busy, bustling, riding the waves and reaching for the sky. On 22 Nov 2008, Montblanc Villeret kindly hosted a iW (Chinese

Substantial sections of this article are published in iW magazine (December 2008). This unabridged version from an interview before the 2008 global financial crisis, appears by courtesy of FineLife Me

PIAGET: PuristS On Tour 2008 Part 3 Previously, we reported on the PuristS On Tour 2008 visit to Piaget: Part 1 click here Part 2 click here For Part 3, our next stop was the transformed Piaget boutiq

PuristS On Tour (POT) 2008 Part 2: PIAGET Manufacture La Côte-aux-Fées Piaget has been one of the most important Swiss makers of ébauches or movement components for more than 130 years. Their "unknown

PuristS On Tour (POT) 2008 Part 1: International Gathering Of The Tribes (IGOTT) - First Contact We gathered from the three main regions of global WIS-dom (The Americas, Europe and Asia) on the first

Previously, we have admired a few "star" designers for a couple of brands. Now, here are some shy, young starlets from the House of the White Star - Montblanc. More correctly, here are the star design

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We previously reported on PIAGET SIHH 2008 novelties: click here AND click here Rose Champagne flowed freely all night long Philippe Leopold-Metzger CEO Philippe Leopold-Metzger and Singapore General

View from Conrad Hong Kong, Pacific Place Check out the Audemars Piguet - iW magazine (Chinese Edn) - ThePuristS GTG in Hong Kong 17 Aug 2008: click here at our sister site ThePuristS . com Thanks, MT

Background Bernhard Lederer learned his trade in Germany but relocated 7 years ago to Switzerland and formed blu – ‘Bernhard Lederer Uhrmacher’ with his wife, Ewa. (Uhrmacher=Watchmaker in German) Now

Fellow PuristS, The contest ended at 23:59 PDT 31 July 2008; contest rules and background reading clues: click here The scores are in and tabulated. The judges have pondered, debated, and cogitated. W

Dear PuristS, PuristSPro and St Gallen Horology Co have collaborated on a PuristSPro All-Black Rescue watch – a special, exclusive version of the St. Gallen Disinfectable Rescue model. Feedback from m

Previously, we brought attention to the JLC Watchmaking Week events to celebrate their 175th Anniversary and the 80th Anniversary of the Atmos clock...... click here Well here is the 1st day of Singap

JLC celebrates 175 years Atmos clock celebrates 80 years Ngee Ann City is a large shopping mall in Orchard Road, Singapore. Within - are many boutiques for the familiar luxury and watch brands we have

Oh - be still my beating heart; The 'James Bond 007 Collector’s Piece' is back . . . . . . . . in black! OMEGA have ramped up the promotion of the new version of the Seamaster Diver 300m James Bond, w

Interview: Thomas van der Kallen of EBEL – Reconstruction Update By Melvyn Teillol-Foo © 2008 Thomas van der Kallen, President of EBEL, last spoke with PuristSPro in 2007 to share his thoughts about r

Omega Moments in Olympic Timekeeping (Source: Omega SA ) The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games open on 08/08/2008 and will mark the 23rd time that Omega has served as Official Timekeeper at the Olympic Games

Substantial sections of this article were published in iW magazine (June 2008). This unabridged version appears by courtesy of FineLife Media Inc. INTERVIEW: KARL-FRIEDRICH SCHEUFELE – CHOPARD DRIVER

Our operative in Bangkok, 'Thai Rider' has been trailing the Concord entourage and has reported in.......... The 'package' landed in BKK today. Concord C1 Retrograde in titanium Demonstration piece. N