My love of Patek started with misunderstanding and a heavily bruised ego. A young boy doesn't have to be convinced that a girl is pretty. He knows it because his sensory criteria are simply and completely satisfied, he sees her day-in and day-out and that
But it's still a demerit, unfairly, but still for JLC. They have to be one step ahead of design 'thieves' even if the thievery is an homage or simply classic design--JLC must play better chess. With that said, I like the new JLC Masters a lot, and of cour
A friend lent me his FC perpetual as I was floored by the design and execution of this watch. The watch is 40mm diameter with a pleasing sub-dial layout that is not scrunched towards the center. The dial has a sunray salmon colored finish that changes its
Just sharing a recent terrible customer service experience with Frederique Constant, bought a brand new manufacture constant manufacture hybrid, but immediately had issue with watch keep stopping. Brought in to hour glass Singapore for warranty support to
Pictured above is “The Citizen Caliber 0210 Automatic” which (together with its no-date-display predecessor, the “0200”) represents what is probably Citizen’s most serious non-quartz watch challenge in recent memory, with the exception of such outliers as
Enjoy your phenomenal Principia. Dutch, so the brothers are a couple of 100 km from me away. I cannot afford a Groenefeld, but superb that watch aficionados with enough money know where they can find Groenefeld. I own a Frederique Constant watch to have a
I think that this is the latest years' trend, great finishing and nothing more. The only watchmaker who's done something really be is Stephen McDonnell with his perpetual and "chrono", while Zenith and Frederique Constant have introduced oscillators.
In the last years the new trend focuses (too much) on finishing. It's rare to see a new escapement and most of the time it's just an update or minor improvement of old escapements. Don't get me wrong, there's absolutely a great quality because hand finish
I saw the Frederique Constant is also getting in tourbillions. And at price points that are relatively reasonable too. I went to a Roger Dubuis presentation a few weeks ago, and that is where I finally decided I "need" a tourbillon. (Like it's a must. Ha