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Seven happy brand owners, two additional watch enthusiasts, and our guest of honor for the evening, Kari Voutilainen! Great to have Kari in our NorCal area for an all-too-brief evening together. Wonde

Greetings to all! Our NorCal gang and other invited guests had the great honor of dining with Max Büsser earlier this week as he swung through our area on his way back to Switzerland from Asia. An add

Greetings to all! Timely that Don has just posted his excellent review of the Grnefelds' watches from Basel this year, as I have just returned from a very brief trip to the Netherlands to visit the "

Greetings to all! My good fortune continues in terms of watch loans from generous friends, with the opportunity this past week to shoot this lovely watch. For me the most beautiful bit is not the sili

Greetings to all! Haven't been too active here recently but figured I'd return with something truly special -- the L1 in SS with black face, only one of three made. Property of a good friend (and Puri

Greetings to all! With the upcoming launch of Vianney's new "outer space" piece, I was drawn back to the Antiqua for a photo session -- in this case emphasizing some of the details of this ground-brea

Greetings to all! Let's say that you're sitting there, as one does, with a sizable wad of cash in your pocket (here is where I depart from your participation in the narrative) and a healthy supply of

Greetings to all! When I posted my retrosp ective on our journey with the KV Masterpiece Chrono II, ztirual posted a response that asked several pertinent questions: " I should have asked Kari, but I

During the recent SIHH week, we were fortunate to have a meeting on short notice with Romain Gauthier, who was kind enough to meet with our small group on a Friday evening. We had been abuzz since see

To steal a literary device from a Purist friend...and with apologies for all inaccuracies in the story given that I am working largely from memory... The time: February, 2010 The place: a small San Fr

Greetings to all! Seems like it's only been 9 years since I started posting here (in fact, it has been) and I have finally managed to creep up to the 3000 post mark -- with the most recent 1000 covere

Greetings to all! Well, the course of true love never did run smooth -- I was anticipating being able to post photos of this watch earlier, but the need for an adjustment meant that I had to wait a bi

...in this case for our pre-SIHH planning lunch! One of our stalwarts was absent due to a flu bug and was sorely missed, but we did manage to get through our detailed spreadsheet of planned activities