Photos from Monochrome. The following is excerpted from the 2014 Monochrome article. "A normal minute repeater gong covers up to 1,5 times the perimeter of the movement. When the gong exceeds that and goes around the movement more than 1,5 times, it is ca

Wishing everyone a great weekend ahead.

I just wanted to recognize something done right at the F.P. Journe website! I logged onto the www.fpjourne.com website today and saw this banner telling me to avoid these fake items! Apparently wall clocks (is that a wall clock?), keychains, something wit

Generally I’ve like the case design for this series, and this one seems to be in a smaller more wearable size which makes it interesting (in theory). What is less appealing is that it is “just a tourbillon”. LOL As for the intersection of fashion and watc

...that why LF is not seen in the same light as FPJ and RR. Because as a watchmaker and a watch brand, LFs pedigree and "manufacture" are no less than the others. I have the LF catalogue, current and last years, and I must say it is one of the gems of the

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Just got this beauty from a grey dealer, a LE of 30 pieces from the “Série Atelier” launched in 2020 to celebrate the brand tenth anniversary. With all the craziness surrounding independents, I find it curious that Laurent Ferrier remains such a bargain.

"Remember those who served. All gave some — some gave all". I respect that we have members here from all over the world, but wanted to take a moment to remember. Today we honor and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in servic

And to me, that seems like an unbelievable blunder. If Zenith were some insanely sought-after, overhyped brand, then sure you could position it like that in the market, but they simply don’t have that luxury. Not at all. And even if they did, I would stil

What is also comparable to me are the trends we see. In the art world, the top artists today are very different from those who dominated 20, 50, or 100 years ago. Artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat , Yayoi Kusama , and Banksy are now worth millions and