Rainer Nienaber

Check out Don Corson's reports of the Independents at Basel and Geneva 2008! Speake-Marin Take an intimate tour of Peter Speake-Marin’s workshop, guided by his wife Daniela. From hand-finished tourbillons to maki-e dials crafted by Japanese masters, this

I must say that the ones with more classical displays are both better legible and - inho - more pleasing to the eye. I love the Bovet watches, but also the Blancpain. May I add another one that is a rare watch, made by one of AHCI's founding fathers, Rain

For me AHCI membership is a distinctive marker of excellence. I bought several watches because the maker is or was AHCI member, and of course because I like the watch. I have watches by Calabrese, Preziuso, Van der Klaauw and Nienaber amongst others. They

This watch originated from a discussion in a German-language watch forum some years ago. There, I pointed out (and demonstrated with pics) that in older times, the tower clocks only displayed the hours with one large hour hand. A bit later, a short hand,

The internet is a wonderful information source when looking for details on subjects not covered by main stream publishing. About two years ago I spent some time to gather information on independent master watchmakers from websites, particularly reports ab

It follows the same principle as my "Monozeiger" watch made by AHCI member Rainer Nienaber: Only Rainer combined it into a single dial. In earlier times, clocks normally only had a single hand, indicating the hours. This was considered accurate enough. A

Dezimal gives me a headache. Sort of like metric time.

Here are the names of watches they own - we could not agree on whether AHCI or not was important; if once independent now brand was important or not. Svend Andersen Soren Andersen Hajime Asaoka Felix Baumgartner Aaron Becsei Robert Bray Vincent Calabrese

... at least this was the case in the pioneer movie "Le voyage dans la lune" by Georges Méliès, made in 1902. Many of you might have seen the famous "man in the moon" face depicted in that early film: While neither my watch, nor a true macro shot, I thoug

Rainer Nienaber pays tribute to the classic way of showing time, when minutes were not dictating our life: The large hand shows 24 hours, the short hand is good enough for quarter hours. This is how our tower clocks displayed the time, until their configu