Slightly off topic but a highly relevant celebration. It was a beautiful cool blue sky day with little wind everywhere in the UK. Four pilots including me decided we should celebrate 100 years of powered flight, so we each flew a Piper PA28 in a formation display in West Oxfordshire that morning. In
My uncle Jack, an RAF engineer, arrived in Singapore September 1941 on a troop ship, having spent a short time passing through Egypt on shore leave where his brother, my father, was stationed flying Wellington bombers with 70 Squadron. I have photographs of their briefly shared time-off before Jack
Last weekend's UK Financial Times appeared to celebrate Cartier's centenary of trinity gold jewellery with rings, earrings and necklaces. I joined the celebration wearing this little-worn, small tank, which I now share. It contains a 9-jewelled Frederick Piguet calibre 8.20 movement. Battery replace
Bought at an auction form a significant collector a while ago. Rather highly radio active lumen, so does not get much wrist time. Supposed to have been in the first batch from G-P and still keeps good time. Marks on the dial are shadows from the crystal. I like the still sharp edges Clive
When I stay at 128 Piccadilly it is only a single bus stop to the Arcade for a fun visit. Sadly, the perfumery was gone when I last visited. I did buy a vintage Omega for my son several years ago and recently scrutinised some vintage Rolexes, to no avail. That Omega usually fights a Gamin health wat
My small collection was really already complete, but purists know how this goes! An online auction success last week brought me this polished steel Nomos Orion Ros é 35mm. I have been fascinated for a while with this manufacturer but did not like the Bauhaus-style of alfa-numerical indices shown on
The model was Picasso's new mistress and when his wife saw it for the first time after a long time, realised Picasso was unfaithful. Maybe the watch says "about time" to know? Picasso was a very, very talented artist. His work as a youth is amazing. Clive