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Moderator Patrick_y gives a thorough introduction to Fountain Pens in this informative article about pens and how luxury pens are seeing an increase in interest around the globe. Fountain pen photo by Montblanc. This is Montblanc's special fountain pen, known as "Peter the Great" and was designed to

11 years with the Volvo P1800! I never had a car for such a long time. Sometimes, you get tired of a car, after several years of ownership. Here, it is not the case at all. The more I use it, the more I love it. At the point it is my daily driver. Ok, during all these years, I had a few, very few ba

The LUC 1963 Heritage Chronograph certainly looks familiar to many of our dear members and / or readers, here. Indeed, in 2014, the PuristS Team worked in collaboration with Chopard on a project, a manual winding, no date, chronograph. in a decent size, in steel. Chopard agreed, and we had the... L.

In 2019, I had the pleasant surprise to discover the Master Grande Tradition Minute Repeater Perpetual in white gold, guilloché blue enamel dial version. I couldn't see the white dialed version till recently, during my last visit at the Manufacture. The Guilloché Blue Enamel version: To sum up my fe

Panerai just opened their latest corporate-run boutique in city of Palo Alto, California a few weeks ago at the Stanford Shopping Mall near Stanford University. Palo Alto is a town about 20 miles (30 kilometers) South of San Francisco in Silicon Valley. Panerai is a brand experiencing a resurgence i

URWERK HAS DONE IT AGAIN! They've made another incredible creation! A SUPER COOL NIXIE CLOCK! It stands 1.6 meters tall! Weighs 40 KG!!! What kind of box does this come in? A crate? EIGHT! 8! Eight Nixie tubes displaying hours, minutes, seconds, and hundredths of a second. The bottom tubes are proba

Another surprise, from Arnold And Son, this year, with this UltraThin Tourbillon. More sober, less spectacular than the GlobeTrotter or the Double Tourbillon, more classic, probably, too, this UltraThin Tourbillon plays the card of Elegance and Classicism. I would not say that it is objectively ultr

Synopsis: How does IWC justify the high pricing of its new INGENIEUR line? Patrick_y examines value in today's Swiss Watch Industry. Could IWC be milking the market with a high price for the INGENIEUR model? No, I have to say it in a nicer more constructive way... Could IWC be overcharging slightly

A lot of people have opinions. And a lot of people think their opinion is right. But these people often don't consider other perspectives and the valid opinions of those perspectives. Thus, this post is designed to help build some empathy for the industry professionals who make the horological produ

The Double Tourbillon from Arnold and Son is not what we can call a novelty as it was first unveiled in 2014. BUT this year, the brand issued two sublime pieces unique, one with a Malachite dial, the other with an aventurine dial, adding some extra poetry and romanticism to these already exquisite w