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Muse int. d'horlogerie (MIH), – Part 9 and final part From historical automata to modern robots: We are leaving the section of automates and musical clocks, entering an entirely different world

Muse int. d'horlogerie (MIH), La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 7 After a nice lunch, we are walking back towards the museum. After a nice lunch, we are walking back towards the museum. We see an inter

Muse int. d'horlogerie (MIH), La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 8 We move ahead in the section of fascinating automata from times long gone by…. Musical clocks and watches: Example of a watch wit

Mus  e international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 5 Now we are moving to the chronometers and precision pendulum clocks. Number 10: Chronometer cased in chromed metal. Anker escapeme

Muse int. d'horlogerie (MIH) La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 6 Lets see some very nice pocket watches now: French "onion" pocket watches, 17 th century. Savonette with enamel painting on gold. Case i

Musée international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 1 End of August, I took a day with my father to visit the Musée international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. Without further redo, let's s

Muse international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 2 We were visiting the museum in no specific order, just following our interests. The description of the pictures is taken from the in

Muse international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 3 More early astronomical clocks and a few interesting approaches to world time watches: Elias Kreitmayer, Freidberg, end of 17 th cen

Muse international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. – Part 4 Now some interesting and unusual examples of pocket watches: A pair of pocket watches made for the Chinese market. Lepine movement i

Antoine Martin  Part 1: The company and the people I had the pleasure to visit Antoine Martin in Alpnach, Switzerland early August. Alpnach is located in the scenic Canton of Obwalden in Central Swit

Antoine Martin Part 2: The Caliber AM 39 It gets a bit technical now.but I truly believe it is worthwhile to spend some time on the technical features of the Cal. 39. The concepts of the caliber 39 h

Antoine Martin Part 3: The Watches Both the perpetual calendar and the tourbillon use a case that was designed and is manufactured exclusively for AM. It is a complex case with 84 individual parts and

Part 3's pictures were completely messed up….must have to do with the upload, as they appear correctly on my word file. Here the part 3 of the article again. I hope that everything is fine now.

JLC Masterclass - Part 1: disassembling the Cal. 875 Last weekend, I was invited by the JLC Boutique in Lucerne to attend the "JLC Master Class" Finally I would have the chance to lay my hands on a Je

JLC Masterclass Part 2 – assembly of the Cal. 875 (Part 2) Now the real challenges comes: putting all the part back into the movement! Ok, the two spring barrels are back where they belong. It i

ochs und junior – a non-watchmakers approach to watchmaking Part 1 New store and headquarters On the occasion of their new shop, I visited the new ochs und junior headquarters, shop and home base whic

ochs und junior – a non-watchmakers approach to watchmaking Part 2 Selene tinta The latest addition to the ochs und junior range. It adds a clever moon phase to the mese tinta. It features the worlds

ochs und junior – a non-watchmakers approach to watchmaking Part 3 Development ochs und junior's development process is certainly unique in the watch industry. It simply described as follows: "If I ne