Tweet Today is Marc Jenni’s birthday, which is a good reason to tell you about his watches. Quite remarkably his watches don’t have a crown… winding and setting time and date is done in a new way, called lateral winding. Marc Jenni started as an apprentice of master watchmaker Paul Gerber, who is (among...
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Tweet The first day of Baselworld is always a big rush of meeting people and seeing lots and lots of interesting new watches. Here are already a few first impressions. Last year Baselworld was a rush of only 3 days, absolutely not enough to see everything i’d like to see. This year i’m taking...
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Tweet Today the biggest watch show of the year starts, Baselworld 2010. Many, many watch brands will show their new watches to collectors and the press. Like last year, Robert-Jan from Fratellowatches and I will go to Baselworld. In less than 2 hours we will drive south for an absolute über-nerd-watch-week. On my wrist...
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Tweet Independent watchmakers John and Stephen McGonigle will release the “Tuscar” featuring their new time-only in-house movement, calibre McG01. With a bit more than a week to go before Baselworld 2010 starts, the number of new watches is overwhelming. Something of a complete different order is a new in-house caliber, especially if it comes...
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Tweet The high-end watch market shows some remarkable extremes. BIG brands, mostly part of large investment groups, and small independents… some observations. Most well-known BIG brands are gathered under the wings of huge groups like LVMH, Richemont and the Swatch Group. And than there are the small independent watchmakers. Of course there are many,...
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Tweet Water resistance to 5000 meters. A watch capable of this can easily be called the ultimate dive watch. Pita, a innovative Spanish watch brand, made this ultimate dive watch. The Pita Oceana. Pita Barcelona is Aniceto Jiménez Pita’s watch brand. And guess where he’s from…. Aniceto Pita (1947) is a self-taught watchmaker who...
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