After 3 years of waiting, it's finally time. After 20 years of visiting Baselworld, which is now closed, it is off to Geneva for the first time in beautiful weather. Unfortunately, W&W is only for industry people and strictly invited guests and we have to
After the well known in its collection Sun Deity (here below for reminder), Frederic Jouvenot launches a Moon Deity familly. This Sn model is named after the Mesopotamian god of the moon. I love the way the sun and moon are hidding under the dial (see vi
According to my understanding, the "Zenit (Зени́т) TTL" is a Russian made camera with (in the model shown) T hrough- T he- L ens-metering and a M42 thread mount. The 6-element 58mm f/2.0 "Helios" is based on the pre-war Zeiss Biotar lens. One note: I assu
Yes, dogs are indeed man's best friend. Malcolm Gladwell said in his book "what the dog saw" that dogs see humans as a gigantic tennis ball, and I totally agree. They mimick, taunt, beg and amuse me all the time. #4 will come soon if I get to go to Bali,
Just saw this in the new IW and thought it was interesting. This is a picture of a picture, so not great quality. The description says that all the radial 'spokes' are golden at midday, so I am assuming noon. They then turn dark one by one as time passes.
Frédéric Jouvenot presented his Helios for the first time at BaselWorld 2010 I quote my BaselWorld report "This year at Basel he showed the Hélios, a watch with a completely new method of indicating the time. The dial is dominated by 12 rays in the form o
the Earth … but that's no problem for watches, or Mac users. Taken from the SINN Katalogbuch 2006: "After examining nearly 10000 watches within the routine service program for Sinn clients, about 60% of them showed the effects of magnetism. Half of these
While most Swiss watch companies focus on new complications and/or designs a few other companies have concentrated their efforts on new revolutionary oscillating weights, a.k.a rotors, which would bring additional benefits with automatic winding. Let's ha