Discovery of the unknown is one of the defining aspects of any hobby that involves collecting. Whilst my wife and I were pondering diversifying some of our savings, I chanced upon the watch below being offered at Watches of Knightsbridge in December of la
Van Cleef & Arpels has released a new variant of its dual time zone complication with double jumping hours and retrograde minutes . It's the Midnight Heure d'ici & Heure d'ailleurs ref. VCARPEVI00 . So I thought it would be interesting to review the three
Queue start since Sunday and folks are willing to wait 7 days for the Royal Pop. Oh well… not sure how much they are expecting to flip the pocket watches for.
Well we know the Journe auction market is totally nuts. And don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Journe But ….. The day a rather basic FP Journe ( yeah yeah, I know the “brass mouvement” crap) sells for as good as the same price as a Patek Philippe perpe
THE EXCELLENCE OF FRENCH PILOTS The moment the Alpha Jets of the Patrouille de France pierce the sky in formation, the audience holds its breath. Created in 1953, this elite unit of the French Air and Space Force is one of the most respected aerobatic dis
We both love the beach and surfing, so I pulled the trigger. As with most things on Instagram, which can be a hit or miss. Image a Richard Mille eating two or three Hublot Big Bangs and you get the idea from a size perspective. It’s a WHOPPER, but the Bos
Op-Ed: Quartz saved the Swiss watch industry ... Yes, the humble swatch quartz watch that many of us grew up with helped spur a revival of an ailing Swiss watch industry. Lebanese-born Nicholas Hayek Senior was the CEO of the SWATCH Group and he realized
We will Explore the Watchmaking Scene in the Middle East and some of the people who are behind the long history of watches in the region. Raul Tena Pearl Diver While the watch was made in Switzerland the idea came from the UAE and for me captures the Cult