Monday, Dec 10 2007
articles: 5
Timex iControl review revisited
Just got a chance to pay with the iControl. Don’t buy it if you’re looking for a sports watch. Buy it if you want to control your iPod from your wrist. The Timex iControl is a watch/dongle combination that lets you control your iPod from your Timex Ironman. The watch itself …
Batman could wear this Japanese Twelve 5-9 Q version LED Watch
TokyoFlash sent us word about an new cool LED wristwatch from Japan. The Twelve 5-9 Q version has a distinctly bio-mechanical design you could find on Batman's wrist. The Twelve 5-9 Q version is available in a rugged gun...
Unique Musical Wristwatch
Reuge Company Reuge, a Swiss music box producer, has developed a unique musical wristwatch under the brand name of Mermod Freres. The timepiece does not simply offer the 'minute repeater' function - it does not have a hammer striking a bell. Instead, the musical wristwatch has incorporated special disks activating metal strips, the same way as in our grandparents' old music boxes. The Reuge Company was established in 1886. It represents the only remaining music box maker in Switzerland and only one of three in the world. It is managed by Kurt Kupper, the new CEO of the brand. Reuge products range in price from 300 to 120,000 Swiss francs.Reuge musical creations bear a distinctive touch of modernity. Just imagine, the latest of the brand's music boxes was designed like a V-shaped engine exclusively for Ferrari! Innovative Ideas Kurt Kupper has initiated a few innovative ideas - the company has developed the following original music boxes:music boxes for Maybach automobiles;bell-boy hat-shaped music boxes for all the just-married at the Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo, with the waiting list completed till the end of 2008; Harry Potter music boxes, including a 'musical piece of furniture' equipped with an LCD screen and DVD player; and even special music boxes for the BirdLife animal welfare foundation with Her Royal Highness Princess Takamado of Japan as the foundation's Honorary President. Mermod Freres' Acquisition Reuge has recently acquired the Mermod Freres watch company, with the foundation dating back to 1816. The company was established in Sainte-Croix, also the home of Reuge. Mermod Freres specialized in the development of complicated watches and mechanical music boxes. Unfortunately, after the crash of 1929 the production was stopped.After almost 80 years, the Mermod Freres watch company has been revitalized, having presented a world first - the Primo 4. The development of the timepiece has been based on the four-year research. The new watch has successfully mixed two types of savoir-faire
Timepiece inspired by world of Jules Verne
Vulcania is the name Fabrice Gonet has chosen for his second watch recently designed. The amazing timekeeping creation was inspired by the world Jules Verne described in his books and inherited its name from the mysterious Vulcania Island. The watch is designed in the …
Cult Watches
Not too long ago, I noticed ‘Cult Watches, the world’s enduring classics’ in a window of a book store in The Hague. It is a book by Michael Balfour, whom I think is also responsible for more horological titles. I flipped through the pages and looking at the pictures and …
