I get a sense that FPJ collectors and investor groups could be self funding the FPJ rise - à la De Bethune more recently and Panerai in the past. Let's hope for all independent makers this doesn't spiral too out of control - because at Watches and Wonders

Pic by BobL posted here May 7 above

My DB28 has been to service twice, the first time for dirt / debris on the inside of the dial from (maybe) going in the water with the crown out. Oops! The did a full cleaning gratis (I paid shipping) and had they watch back to me in maybe 4 months. The s

I'd lean toward the Starry Seas myself, since I can't resist De Bethune's blued titanium, and I don't think there's anything else like that microlight texture out there. Open dials and mirror polishing are more commonplace design features, and besides, yo

The Starry Seas and Steel Wheels are two of my favorite watches. They are supremely comfortable to wear—both light and perfectly sized. And they both demonstrate DB’s ingenuity and finishing skills, though in very different ways. The Starry Seas can, perh

And yes I wear my watches working out “POST TENEBRAS LVX”

Think I already asked the question about how DB after sales service but interested since I'm definitely valuing this more than ever. Tried on both the starry seas and the steel wheels. I honestly thought that the starry seas would be the easy pick but I l

The complex, layered dial on the De Bethune GMT Starry Varius DB25, with it's blued concave blued titanium center sector, is a bear to capture adequately with the camera, and yesterday's overcast conditions on the waterfront offered the perfect lighting.

Much like the odd but charismatic mid-career work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the DB20-24 series was an odd tangent in De Bethune's design journey. They have almost nothing in common with the prior and subsequent De Bethune models, and they're sort of a design

Best, Nicolas