Chronograph Bumble Bee

Hi All Just one new watch for me last year - Swatch Scuba. Wasn't planned - just kinda liked it. Bought in late September & worn pretty much constantly since. Swapped the yellow NATO out black two part NATO & Bumblebee pretty much appeared on wrist. Great

Hi All Had a wander round shopping centre for first time in an age, there was a Swatch store. They sorted out the buckle on my 25 year old Yellow Jelly & gave it a quick clean, even asked if it needed a new battery. Fab & friendly customer service. Looked

Thomas Engel Moonphase No. 46 Concours Observatoire AKA Bumblebee & Stars: the watch may only be rare in my mind because I've never seen a Thomas Engel Concours Observatoire with moonphase; the watch does not appear in Manfred Rössler's article « Thomas E

Example of Professor Engel's green enamel work: Thomas Engel No. VIII (Richard Daners one-minute tourbillon). Old auction text : screw-down engine turned back overlaid with translucent green enamel with very elegantly arranged gold paillon leaves . The wa

Thomas Engel in addition to being well-versed in the nuts & bolts of horology, the art of guilloche, goldsmithing etc. the Professor was adept in the artistry of enameling; though more-or-less self-taught (epitome of an autodidact), A.L Breguet was Thomas

besides my father's omega constellations (mechanical from late 50's steel/gold and quartz from 80's also steel gold, which i do not wear but are sentimentally meaningful to me, I only have a 2014 steel seamaster master coaxial, the original master coaxial

My wife insists I wear something that hints of Christmas. Mele Kalikimaka (that's Hawaiian) will do. Here we go on a lovely December morning. I drop her off at the Garden Club Christmas Market and head down to the cove. Past all these houses with that wid

. . . The Omega bumblebee caused quite a stir when it was released. If memory serves correct it was the first reference to employ Omega's magnetism resistant movement materials. Best, Art

(Add music from “The Flight of the Bumblebee”) Leica CL + TL 11-23