According to Christie's , in spring of 1936 both Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin were "approached by a private to develop, produce and supply a very small series of hour angle wristwatches for testing". These five watches are never presented togeth

I am trying to think... Which one was the first to make a celebrity endorsement? I'm thinking Edsel Ford using Charles Lindbergh to be a spokesperson for Ford's airline - which was starting to court passenger traffic. But there might be something earlier

but I considered this simple 38mm piece for many years since its release in the 90s It also existed in a manual wound version, small seconds, 43mm diameter. It looks good in itself but unwearable IMO. Silver or black dials. Chrono was also available. As u

In the 1920’s “three Romanian immigrant brothers, Benjamin, Oscar, and Ralph, launched watch company Benrus in New York with their combined $5,000 savings. Benrus imported Swiss movements to the United States and put them into cases in New York. They soon

Hurray! That was quite kind of you to mention one of my photos. The bad guys usually never win But for every epic story, you need few villains for the good guys to come out victorious. There was in that photo two good guys: the black dialed "Israeli Defen

So in terms of rarity, this is certainly one of the oddest watches Longines made for presumably the WW2 Italian Regina Aeronautica. If you are unfamiliar with the Longines big pilots, these 47mm Longines are almost always made of silver or steel. The two

What a marvel! There would never be a nicer watch than that Lindbergh you post. Even the story of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter plain is astonishing. I took my WPS nickname in honor of the Longines Weems, and u put on the diamonds on the cake (Mitsubishi).

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