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Wednesday, Sept 12 2007

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British Watchmaking & the Longitude Act

No Redirect | 12. Sept 2007 12:46 |

The plenary session at Tempus that I moderated was to be a panel discussion of the state of British Horology with the great achievement of John Harrison who solved the longitude navigation problem.I attach here our combined slides but much of our conversation during the …

New Geomesh mirrored Japanese LED Watch

Wrist Dreams | 12. Sept 2007 12:45 |

The new Geomesh LED watch by e35 is a new very successful attempt to make reading the time as difficult as possible. The Geomesh uses the horizontal and vertical lights to indicate hours and minutes. The styling of the...

Aston Martin Limited Edition Watch by JAEGER-LECOULTRE

PROFESSIONAL WATCHES | 12. Sept 2007 08:05 |

[ via The Raw Feed ] If you take a look at the left side of the Jaeger-LeCoultre watch case you will see the buttons that lock and unlock a special edition Aston Martin DBS. It costs $35,000 on top of $250K for the DBS. There are only 200 editions and you have to buy the …

The Watchmaker formerly known as the....

PROFESSIONAL WATCHES | 12. Sept 2007 04:06 |

[ via WristWatchReview ] The watchmaker formerly known as "the Prince", I mean "the Scorpion Watch Company". Cool looking watch, but what is the deal with the name change. I definitely liked the original name better.