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Visit to Longines factory in Saint-Imier, Switzerland with old and new friends. Tour operators Ztirual & Adriano organized festivities beautifully. Dial specialist Mr. Baeryswyl shared knowledge. Long

A few weeks ago Antony (Ant) invited a few of us to a meal with an old friend of his David Goldberg of Timetraders. David has spent most of his life in the jewellery and watch business in the UK and o

A couple of weeks ago, myself and a number of Purists (including a freshly inaugurated Moderator) were kindly invited to a taster of some of the new watches shown at Basel this year. Although a vintag

Myself and a couple of other Purists were invited last week to a small room in the center of London. Spot the odd one out. Here we were plied with drinks and allowed to look at some current offerings.

A quick report on an impromptu gathering to welcome Hororgasm to our British shores. It was a lovely and incredible evening, organised by Mo and with myself and GregD also present. Deep in the East En

I was recently going through a magazine and came across some pictures from BaselWorld 1946. Blomman recently posted some pictures from another old fair and I thought it would be interesting to contras

This week a few of us managed to get together for a few stolen hours indulging ourselves with some beautiful gems and conversation. Guest of honour was Blomman who made a flying visit to our rainy sho

Hi, this is my first posting on the Omega forum at the Purists. I thought I'd share with you a pretty amazing watch I was lucky enough to see recently. A friend of mine who knew of my passion for earl