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Last years viewing of the 2013 JLC SIHH collection [ click here ] was so successful that Richemont Australia and the Australasian Managing Director for JLC, Alexis de Laporte, were excited to share t

Zeitwinkel started in 2006 and released their first watch to market in 2009. If you read the company website you can see that they take great pride in the fact that their watches are built around a ma

It is very exciting to see the Chopard L.U.C. 1963 Chrono PuristS Edition come to fruition. I was able to speak with Guy Bove back in November 2012 during the early design and development stages. Guy

Atelier du Bracelet Parisien, or A.B.P., has been producing made-to-measure watch straps for more than 15 years from nearly every material you can imagine. Common alligator, calf, ostrich and stingray

As the dust starts to settle, what has caught your eye from BaselWorld this year? While we have to work from press releases and impressions from our 'reporters' at the fair, there are a few standouts

I had no idea when I sat in the IGOTT2 Chopard session ( May 31, 2011, click here ) titled “What's a PuristS watch?" that the L.U.C 1963 Chrono PuristS Edition would be delivered to us three years lat

I have written about the Hong Kong F.P.Journe Boutique before, a true oasis from the bustle of the city and the other watch boutiques. So I took the opportunity to visit the Paris Boutique and the exp

It is always exciting to see a new brand coming into the local market and we were recently invited to the Melbourne launch held at Pickings & Parry in Fitzroy, a men’s shop featuring hand made and

 or Where's Wally Now? The idea behind this thread is to see your watches against recognizable landmarks. Lets see how much of the world we can cover! Heres an easy one to start you off. Where am

Table shots are a tradition at watch get-togethers the world over; a way of remembering who was there and with which watches. Table shots are posted all over PuristS, but I thought it would be fun to

Here are a couple of my favourites: the Dornbluth Jasmin and the F.P.Journe Octa RdM. What are yours? Andrew

I always had an interest in mechanical objects, small and large. Mechanical watches were included in that, but it took my fortieth birthday in 2004 for me to start researching a nice modern watch to m

Dieter Dornblth had been repairing watches in Kalbe (located in Saxony-Anhalt in the former German Democratic Republic in Eastern Germany) since the 1960s. Dieters son, Dirk, graduated from watch m

David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons (1851-1925) was a scientist (working in the newly invented area of electromagnetism with electric lamps and electric motors, amongst other things), the first direc

Black and gold are a perfect combination in the watch world; they complement each other beautifully. The latest iteration in the Hawk series is the Chrono Hawk Hollywoodland which features a black cer

The Accutron Spaceview 214 originally used a #387 1.35V mercury cell but this was discontinued due to the dangers of mercury. The replacement battery is a 387S 1.55V silver oxide battery. The 387S is

I have shown this simple 1967 steel Omega Constellation with pie pan dial before (the reference is 167.005), but I thought you might enjoy seeing the full packaging that came with it. Packaging, in ad

Late last year I met with Felix who was wearing the prototype UR-210 . The watch had been on his wrist for 11 months and he had just delivered the first eight pieces to customers. Join Felix in this v

It is special when a watch becomes part of you; an expression of who you are. My wife has been wearing a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Memory (Reference 255.08.82) for many years. It is not mollycoddled, b

Some of us change watches frequently but others, like me these last couple of years, rotate watches less often. Personally, I tend to have two watches around at any one time  a casual watch and a mor