Tuesday, Sept 16 2008
articles: 7
Locman Manages To Combine An Aviator Watch And A Dive Watch With the Marina Militare Automatic: Fashionable
Aren't you just a tad bit surprised that you haven't seem more watches like this before? People LOVE diver watches, they LOVE aviator watches: couldn't they just combine the two affections into one uber watch? Well Locman tried to do just that with the new Locman Marina …
Peacemark in financial difficulties
News of the financial difficulties of Peacemark - the giant holding company with interests and huge holdings of brands and retail shops in East Asia based in Hong Kong - had been reported on the internet news services for some weeks. Europa Star published some interesting …
Rejoice! Buscum Ducis is shipping - Updated with photos
All around nice guy Sven from Buscum Ducis is reporting that he just got his first shipment in of his first watch line and one is winging its way over to the US as we speak. As you’ll recall, Sven van der Zande is a 21-year-old horologist with a dream: he wanted to make his [...]
New Tokyoflash: Negative
From my other site: I’ve always liked Tokyoflash watches, but I’ve also always been wary of committing to a single crazy-ass color whenever a design impressed me; the ones I liked were always monochromatic. No more! The newest Tokyoflash timepiece, the Negative, sports 7 …
Franc Vila Skeleton Monopusher Chronograph Tourbillon
This new brand named after the founder himself was in Singapore this week to meet with local watch collectors and showcase his watches. While on hand was a very wide selection of watches, I chose to photograph the Skeleton Monopusher Chronograph Tourbillon as it was a …
Badollet, raising the bar on ‘exclusive’
Badollet is a venerable name in watches, going back over 350 years in France. Today, a maker of luxury watches headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland bears this name. There was a disruption in their trade during the French Revolution, and break in continuity of the Badollet …
1950's Military IWC Signed by Gubelin
"What is Gubelin?" you might ask. Well, to most of you Americans out there, it doesn't mean much. Howeve 5a8 r, to our European, and most surely to our Swiss readers, it probably means a lot. Gubelin is a legendary Swiss Jewelry house that not only sells and markets …
