Johann

if i have no opportunity to obtain one, its uninteresting to me. i've met Marco, I like him, I have a King Johann which i love. this is nothing against Marco. but this fad of limited editions unavailable to all but a tiny group is actually offensive and d

That said, I could live with the platinum example with pear hands. The PR indicator bothers me, but I know that I would love the experience of looking at it while winding the watch (which has only 33h of PR). But, yes, there might be better options in the

Also, look at the Friedrich III, as perhaps a better size. It’s just under 40mm, which for my wrist is a better proportion, and with special Order enamel dial, possibly the perfect dress watch😉 The Johann at 43mm is marginally too big for me. Cheers!

The third lug was part of an aesthetic design that Marco felt was important. He wanted to bring some “weight” or mass to the enter line of the watch, given that the crown with the subtle guards, meant that the right hand side of the watch was overly weigh

Check out Don Corson's reports of the Independents at Basel and Geneva 2008! Speake-Marin Take an intimate tour of Peter Speake-Marin’s workshop, guided by his wife Daniela. From hand-finished tourbillons to maki-e dials crafted by Japanese masters, this

I was looking to buy a watch that I could celebrate my first anniversary of giving up the booze. I'm not sure how I first came across them but their story of how the brand was created, and the fact that the logo is a stylised alcohol molecule, had a direc

I love enamel dialed watches and have several currently: The 1846MC 150th Anniversary model from 1996: The one and only platinum 38mm original Piccadilly with an enamel dial from 2005: My second L&H with an enamel dial, the Georg in RG case. Previousl

Many of us fall in love with the beauty of a watch and conveniently forget to consider the servicing of a watch especially from an independent brand with limited distribution outlets. I too worry and sometimes a simple 3 handed watch makes so much more lo

My last concern: the service or repairs can also be made from an excellent “normal” watchmaker? What about spare parts if the company for instance goes bankrupt? There are independent watchmakers where this isn’t a problem because damaged parts can be rep