For sale a Sinn 356.Flieger.sa in bead-blasted stainless steel with leather strap, including the original inner- and outer box and paperwork, which was sold...
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You’ve probably read or heard about 19-year old Mick Mooren, who introduced his own watch brand. For people in the western part of The...
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A bronze and titanium watch with automatic movement. It features jumping hours, retrograde minutes and date, and a circulating second hand. The diameter of...
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Frank Geelen of Monochrome published a wonderful review of the Audemars Piguet Millenary Star Wheel which I have currently for sale in my shop....
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They kept us waiting didn’t they? The first time a saw a prototype (or just pictures, I don’t exactly remember) was at the Baselworld...
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Sinn just started to deliver their new EZM.7 and I got one of the first watches available. The EZM.7 with its colour-coded bezel is...
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In June 1997 Cartier celebrated their 150th anniversary with a very special Pasha, the reference W3102255. This anniversary Pasha in stainless steel was produced...
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Christiaan van der Klaauw’s passion for the firmament reveals itself in an ode to the Planetarium and is one of the most famous creations of the master. This masterpiece is an ultimate demonstration of precision and traditional handwork. The watch is equipped with the smallest planetarium in the world and gives not only the time, date and month, but also the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn around the Sun. Enjoy a picture report of a...
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This is incredible. Do you remember the pre-LED digital indication from the sixties? These were called Nixie tubes and were glass-vacuum tubes with numbers displayed on different layers of elements inside. Now a company called ‘Cathode Corners’ – as far as I can find out, pretty much a one man show by David Forbes, based in Tuscon Arizona – is using the smallest available of these tubes in a wrist watch. The Cathode Corner Nixie Watch is a two-digit...
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Sinn recently introduced a 3,5 mm larger version of their very popular 356.Pilot model, from which I got the first one in last week. Although I’m not a big fan of large watches, this bit of growing just does this pilot’s watch very well. The diameter/thickness ratio just feels better, and with the new 42 mm diameter it fits extremely well as a professional, classic sporty, chronograph on any moderate size of wrist. Last July when I received the...
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We wish you all a healthy and happy twenty-twelve; may beautiful and interesting watches be with us ;-) For in2watches.com 2011 ended a bit messy, and 2012 started equal as well. Our website was hacked on New Years eve and of course our provider celebrated the years change parties as well, and so we were only able to contact them today on Monday January 2nd, 2012. But then, within 40 minutes they had us up and running again, without...
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These dark days around Christmas make a good opportunity for lume shots. ISO 200, f/4, 1/2 sec As most modern digital camera’s do a good job on regular, and even macro, photography of wristwatches in their standard ‘Program’-mode, making a lume shot (a picture which shows mainly the illumination of the dial and hands in the dark) is a different story. You have to find out for yourself which is the best setting of your camera in manual speed-...
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Cartier has just ‘SIHH pre-announced’ a Grand Complication Pocket Skeleton Watch, reports moderator GEO of the Revolution Online Cartier forum. Of this beautiful creation in white gold, only 10 pieces will be produced. The technical data are no less impressive than it’s extreme beauty: - Tourbilon chronographe perpetual calendar - White gold, manually polished - Case dimensions: 49.2mm - In-house caliber 9436MC - Saphire curved glass on both sides - 8 Days power reserve - Rock crystal arc for...
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On it’s main mission to outnumber Rolex in the world, Omega launches it’s website in Portuguese. We can’t imagine that this was done for the Portuguese market (I’m sorry guys), so this website has to be aimed towards the high-potential country of Brazil. Expanding sales in a large, and at the moment still pretty uncultivated, area like Brazil (5th largest country in the world with 200 million inhabitants; indeed they might not all be able to buy an Omega...
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Beat Weinmann of ochs & junior (they don’t want to use capitals in their brand name) treated the Dutch watch aficionado’s on an informative and tasteful breakfast event, at Villa Augustus in Dordrecht. The watches of ochs & junior, the communication, the whole concept (I hate that word) are a very fresh and inspiring way to look at haute horlogerie. Where others seek complexity, Ludwig Oechslin – the inventor behind the ochs & junior movements – thinks up ingeniously...
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Ming Thein, editor and photographer at one of the leading watchblogs, Fratellowatches, has published a beautiful photo essay of the Sinn U.1000 professional divers chronograph. Even if you might not be a huge fan of this kind of large and masculine watches, make sure to read the article and have look at the pictures. There are some interesting and first-hand points of view about the watch, the way it wears and functions. You’ll find the full article here: www.fratellowatches.com
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I wrote a little post on my Dutch watch blog horlogenieuws.nl. At that time it was 10-10-10, 10:10:10 and I thought it was a nice time to talk about the time most watches indicate when they are being pictured. Now, 11-11-11, 11:11:11 the watch looks very different, however it’s a memorable time as well. It’s nice to see that the same watch look very different from last year, and I think not as beautiful. As the post on horlogenieuws.nl...
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Ever wanted to visit the ateliers of Piaget? It might be that this wouldn’t be the first manufacture you thought of to visit; the more you will be stunned by the extreme horological possibilities of this relatively unknown manufacture. Now you can take the chance to judge by yourself by entering the contest which our friends at HODINKEE offer at the moment. If you answer the ten questions right one of you will be offered, by HODINKEE in partnership...
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Sadly George Daniels, another great watchmaker of our time has passed away yesterday (October 21st, 2011). Picture (c) John Quintero. Daniels, born in 1926, became famous for creating the co-axial escapement, which as we know has been used by Omega in their highest grade watches since 1999. Further George Daniels was mentor to another British veteran watchmaker, Peter Roberts (now working for Bremont). Even still at last years SalonQP George Daniels, together with Roger W. Smith, introduced the Co-Axial...
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In a few weeks time, the third edition of the SalonQP will open it’s doors. From November 10 till 12 the event offers a unique chance to discover the finest watches and meet the most interesting brands in the world. (picture (c) John Quintero) For this years edition the location of SalonQP has changed from One Marylebone to the world famous London Saatchi Gallery. Stay tuned here for more information in the weeks to come, and of course even...
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During my visit last week in Southern-France I was able to find a little spare time to have a dive in to the Mediterranean. What els can you wear than the mother of all diving watches in that case, so here’s the watch which was #womw. Very nice to see the mirror effect, disabling you from looking at the face. A slight twist of your wrist does it all good of course, and otherwise there’s always the Sinn option...
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