Tempus Terrae

Bruno.M1 's post from yesterday gave me the idea to regroup the many wolrdtimers made by Svend Andersen , who, during his nine years of work at Patek Philippe, became very accustomed to the Louis Cottier world time complication. A very demanding thread (s

Unfortunately not mine but I saw this piece posted by the brand on Instagram and had to share. Usually hate gems on watches but this is awesome.

But still love the picture AND the watch Svend Andersen ... Imo THE godfather of independent watchmaking Making his own watches since the late 1990's, during these more or less 45 years he made less than 1300 watches Before that he worked for Patek Philip

2022 GPHG Winners Aguille d'Or: Greubel Forsey Tourbillon or Seiko Kodo Tourbillon. Ladies': Konstantin Chaykin Harley Quinn - because why not? We all want a "naughty girl" every now and then to win something. This one is the watch you get for your girlfr

Svend Andersen his Worldtimers First one was the communication in 1990 ( F.Piguet 9.51 calibre and on top Svend Andersen added an in-house world timer Module ) Second was the Christopher Columbus ( 500 pce limited edition) 3rd , in 1993 the WT Mundus came

Already many years big fan of independant watchmaking, with on top of my list Roger W Smith of course. Today I was lucky enough to visit Roger's workshop on Isle of Men! What a great experience. Enjoyed all from the beginning (TT course by taxi to worksho

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get away from work but a friend went in my place. Many delicious pics to share! Laurent Ferrier x Urwerk Arpal One MB&F Horological Machine No. 8 Notice the miniature elephant in white gold! Andersen Geneve Tempus Terrae And my f

Pierre-Alexandre, CEO, came to Tokyo with lots of offerings from Andersen Geneve and had a small event at Stella-Polare (Tokyo's hidden gem place exclusively for independent watchmaker watches). I am really sorry that Andersen's Secular Perpetual missed t

Svend Andersen has been making watches for a long time. He turned 70 a few years back, but still very much active. His companies' CEO, Pierre-Alexandre Aeschlimann visited Tokyo last week and we had a very unique opportunity to take a look at and handle m

This was right after I was looking forward to the TT Geophysic and there was no watch to see...then met a buddy for drinks and had his Tangente to see I placed the order not much later. I also appreciate that Nomos contributes to a cause without charging