I’ll file any post or article here if it doesn’t fit in any of the other categories, or if I don’t know where to file it else where.
Thursday March 8th 2012, during the opening day of this years Baselworld fair, Harry Winston unveiled the OPUS 12. In order to inform you which models and developments were on the road to this new model, Watchonista published a beautiful website totally dedicated to the Harry Winston Opus series. All models from the OPUS...
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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...
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The sad news just reached me that today, in the age of 80, Gérald Genta has passed away. Gérald Genta was without a doubt one of the most influential wrist watch designers from our time. A few years ago I had a pleasant interview with him during the Baselworld fair; I will remember him...
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Through one of the ‘cool designs’ blogs or websites (I’m sorry, really don’t remember which one) I found this nice McIntosh mantle clock. McIntosh (originally founded in Silver Springs, Maryland in 1949 and since 1956 home in Binghamton, NY) is known and celebrated for their high-end, high quality audio equipment, and this clock seems...
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This week, I thought it was last Thursday, Watchonista Suisse started the Facebook group ‘wristshots’. Now, only a few days later, the group already has over 230 members and is rapidly growing. And not only the number of members is growing, however new posts appear almost every minute. It’s a so called open group...
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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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It’s probably not new, but I just found a very nice Qlocktwo iPhone app. It’s based on the popular and very original Qlocktwo wall clock by Biegert & Funk. Of course the iPhone app can’t live up to the real deal hand made wall clock, which is 45 by 45 cm in size and...
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I just returned from a one week very nice holiday in Southern Spain. So that’s why there weren’t any postings last week ;-) The Rolex GMT-Master IIc was my companion for this week and of course didn’t disappoint. I’m even getting a little used to it ;-) The choice of airline wasn’t as good...
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The ancestor of the current Sinn UX.GSG9 was the Sinn 403.Hydro in EZM.2 execution. This watch was fully oil filled as well, to be absolutely free from fogging, pressure-resistant at any accessible diving depth and perfect readability from any angle under water. As a automatic/mechanical movement won’t work fully drowned in oil, Sinn developed...
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GEO, Cartier specialist, owner and editor of www.troisanneaux.com, and moderator at the Revolution-Online Cartier forum, made this beautiful header for our in2watches weblog. Thank you very much!
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Robert-Jan of fratellowatches.com found this interesting video from Wubbo Ockels, a Dutch astronaut, on our experience of time.
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