Horological Meandering

One of the most common alternative methods used today besides those mentioned, is CNC, which Comblemine provides to clients who wish to offer a more reasonable price for their finished watches. Although I have seen at least one company make a big deal abo

And not known enough among some idiots on social media that call themselves influencers. I like patek too, and VC and AP…. But Breguet is imo the wat to go. Blancpain probably too but I prefer Breguet. And as you said on the secondhand market there are re

I was lucky to be able to own or handle most of Venus based rattrapante chronographs with the exception of Paul Picot and Parmigiani: Franck Muller, Daniel Roth, Panerai, GP, UN. Daniel Roth had a best finishing by far, fairly close to the likes of Patek.

Over the years, I have been blessed and privileged to own a number of extraordinary watches including a Roger Smith Series 1, a Gronefeld Remontoire, a Daniel Roth Tourbillon and a Patek Phillipe skeleton to name a few. None however have made me tinge wit

Maybe there are too many partners and not all of them want to sell. And LV can't buy enough shares to get enough control of the company so they don't want it. Maybe they don't feel LF is a big value add to their portfolio - for the cost it'd take to buy L

Hodinkee seems to have done another round of layoffs, I've heard of some maisons getting their budgets slashed by big numbers across the board, LVMH is responding to the market with some longer term investments slowing or getting cancelled until further n

Moderator Patrick_y gives a quick case study about what to expect about LVMH and watches in the coming years... Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy is the highest grossing luxury goods conglomerate in the world. We're talking over $80 Billion US Dollars a year in

I am actually very much sober while making this sweeping statement. This is despite having owned a Roger Smith Series 1, a Gronefeld Remontoire and a Daniel Roth tourbillon. So what makes me place the Patek Philippe 3878J above all else in such illustriou

Laureato 8010 From the archives. This is the grandfather to all current laureatos. The first mechanical laureato made. Made in extremely small quantities. In steel, a total of 700 made. Blue dial beteeen 50-100 pieces made. That’s it. Released at Basel 19