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Ming Thein, one of the authors at the leading watch-blog, www.fratellowatches.com, published an excellent article on the Sinn tegiment hardening technology. Picture by Ming Thein / Fratellowatches He wrote his article on the basis of a long term wearing review of 5 different Sinn watches, which gives very interesting and reliable first-hand information. Make...
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Last Monday I had a learning moment on Rolex’ restoration services. I traveled to Geneva to bring and discuss the restoration of the below pictured 1962 reference 5508 Rolex Submariner. I’ve done this before; mostly I’ll send modern Rolex models for general service or overhaul to the Rolex BeNeLux service center in Brussels (where...
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After discussions with fellow watch nerds Frank Geelen and Beth Doerr, I’ve changed the name of my Haute Horlogerie link list to ‘Independent Haute Horlogerie‘. The original name came forth from an interesting discussion on the LinkedIn group ‘A Passion for Watches‘; the header of that discussion was ‘Ultra Haute Horlogerie’. However opinions were...
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Today another proposal to include a brand on our Ultra Haute Horlogerie list reached us; Habring2. Habring2 is a brand from Austrian watchmakers Maria Kristina & Richard Habring. They explain the brand as follows: “Habring2 stands for the both of us and designates further the first watch produced in series in our workshop. Since...
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From time to time there’s a discussion anywhere on the web about the Rolex Seadweller’s pin holes. Should a ‘real’ Seadweller 16600 have pin holes in the casing, or shouldn’t it? The first 16600 Seadwellers must have hit the market in the eighties (production started in 1986), and from that time on they always...
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Last week a request reached me to consider adding Roland G. Murphy and RGM Watch Company to my list of independent Ultra Haute Horlogerie watchmakers and brands. To be honest I didn’t know too much about RGM, besides seeing some mainstream divers and general purpose watches with ETA movements from them. So before answering...
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Further to an interesting discussion on the LinkedIn group ‘A Passion for Watches‘ I made an alphabetic list of names and websites of brands and watchmakers which qualify for the ‘Independent Haute Horlogerie’ indication. I divided ‘Independent Haute Horlogerie’ into three groups, extravagant, intermediate and classic, which will improve the readability and use of...
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The blogosphere: Internet panders to watch geeks’ obsessions By Simon de Burton Published in The Financial Times, November 13 2010 00:09 Not so long ago, the only way to glean information about the latest happenings in the world of watches was to subscribe to a specialist periodical. Nowadays, of course, the internet is the...
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Almost every self respecting watch brand meanwhile has an iPhone watch app. Jaeger-LeCoultre, Omega, Breitling, Lange & Söhne, Bell & Ross and, since today, Hublot. What do you think are they any good? I find myself looking at them for one or two times and removing them after I mentioned that I didn’t look...
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