IWC releases a lot of new watches this year. An all new Aquatimer line, a new Big Ingenieur and Big Pilot, new Da Vinci and the last year released vintage collection is now available in rose gold. And finally the long awaited Deep Two.After the Deep One high-end divewatches with a mechanical depth gauge where simply not available for a long time. Panerai and Jaeger-LeCoultre both released a divewa...
The Salon International de Haute Horlogerie has started. A few weeks back i already posted about the SIHH and the first novelty that was revealed…. the Richard Lange Pour Les Merites. The last few days more brands share their new masterpieces. You can read about them and see them at many watchforum like Perpetuelle, a forum dedicated to the love for beautiful timepieces.Here is a full list o...
Usually i post about nice watches, but today i want to share an experience i had when visiting Steltman Watches in The Hague.Today a friend and me went looking for a watch for him. He was about to buying a new Panerai GMT (PAM88) which was on his wishlist for quite some time now. Ad - Scroll to continue with article ...
Every year there are two main watch fairs where most brands shos their watches to their customers and the worldpress. One of those fairs is in Basel and all brands united in the Swatch Group and a lot of other (independent) brands expose their new products. The Salon International de Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) is the equivalent where the brands of the Richemont Group show their new products. The SIHH...
2008 has been quite an exiting year when it comes to watches. As a collector and admirer of fine timepieces i have seen some great new watches. Technically the brands start working with new materials, not only for the cases, but also for movement parts. When it comes to design it seem that the main focus is still on large watches, but i wouldn’t be amazed if this will change next year alread...
After being offline for a few weeks, i am finally ready to post again. I moved to another?house and although i still don’t have an internet connection i can sometimes use a friends connection to read some forums and now post.One of the few discussions i read and enjoyed reading a lot, is the discussion about Cvstos. Cvstos is in my opinion a brand that has ‘borrowed’a lot of thei...
My friend and fellow blogger Robert-Jan lent me some of his books about watches. He is very passionate about Omega and i will do a post about these books later, especially because they come in handy with the upcoming Antiquorum Auction in New York, where a lot of very special vintage Omega watches will be auctioned.Some of these books are perfect ‘coffee table’ books but on a lazy sund...
And again at the Antiquorum Auction helt in the Grand hotel Kempinski in Geneva they had a full room. This auction had two world records, both for a pair of enamel pocket watches and a Patek Philippe reference 1518 in pink gold.The set of pocket watches ended with a price of 2,6 Swiss Francs., which is around 1.7 million euro. The Patek Philippe went to a new owner for the price of 1,3 million Swi...
To celebrate the 150th birthday of Minerva, Montblanc now comes with the Grand Tourbillon Heures Mysterieuses. Montblanc uses Minerva movements for it’s mechanical Collection Villeret 1858. The movements build but Minerva are of great beauty. Take a look at Mont Blanc’s website to see more of this line.Montblanc now comes with another beautiful watch in the Collection Villeret 1858, th...
I’m just back –?in one piece – from a three week trip to Jordan and the Egyptian Sina? desert, and here are?some photos that I made during my trip. We planned a trip to Jordan and were considering to visit Syria and/or Egypt depending on the available time and travel possibilities. From the Jordan southern coast it was a short boat trip to Nuweiba in Egypt and the reefs in that a...
Longines?showed the new Legend Diver at Baselworld 2007. More than a year and a half later this watch is still not available in the Netherlands. Promise after promise, first it was spring 2008, than july 2008 and now almost at the end of 2008 there are still no Legend Divers available at the Dutch AD’s. If you want information about the availability than i suggest you contact Longines.I don&...
On october 16th the next Antiquorum watch auction will be helt in New York. The antiquorum auctions are very interesting for any watch enthousiast, for several reasons. First of all the number of watches being auctioned are enormous and the number of interesting, amazing or stunning watches are almost equally enormous!The online catalog shows everything up for sale, including very good description...
There are some watches in the “big, bulky, sporty chrono” section that tend to come out with several limited editions each year. Of course i’m talking about the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore and the Hublot Big Bang. Although i like both watches, i’m sceptical about the number of LE’s. I have never seen other models/brands come out with so much LE’s based on...
A few years ago IWC was the first Swiss watch brand to make a high end mechanical watch with a mechanical depth gauge, the famous IWC Deep One. I can still remember the first time i saw that watch, it was for me the most beautiful divewatch i’d ever seen. And i guess untill this day it’s one of my favorite dive watches.Unfortunately IWC doesn’t produce them anymore, because the m...
TAG Heuer has a long history in the racing sport, especially in the Formula 1 racing. To celebrate this they have an exhibition named “Racing legend of our time” which is open for public in Singapore from september 19 – 29.There will also be several new models on display at the exhibition. Among them a limited edition of the Grand Carrera in all black. This Grand Carrera Calibre ...
In the long, long wait for Longines to release the Legend Diver on the Dutch market i look for pictures and stories of happy owners of this beautiful watch. At Watchprosite i found a very interesting article about the vintage dive watch from Longines that has obviously inspired the designers to develop the new Legend Diver.Longines Legend DiverIf you like to see more pictures and read the review o...
Last week I had a drink with a friend of mine who is also highly interested in watches. He is actually an avid Cartier collector and knows a lot about this brand. On his own website he gives an extensive overview of the watches of the Cartier Paris Collection Privee (CPCP).If you need details about caliber, size or variations of a specific modell, i’m sure you can find it on troisanneaux.com...
I’ve been trying to buy a reasonably priced chronograph that is not covering my entire wrist. So after extensive searching i decided to go for the Gerard Perregaux Richeville. It has a reworked Lemania 1872 chronograph movement, which is the 2 register version of the movement which is used in the Omega Speedmaster. This GP Richeville reference 2710 has a case of 35mm. That’s exactly wh...
TAG Heuer has not always been ‘TAG Heuer’… it used to be just ‘Heuer’. Heuer was a succesfull company and they made a lot of very well known watches. Especially in the sixties and seventies they made watches that are very well known untill today. Just think of models like the Monaco, Autavia and Carrera. All of these also have very succesfull re-issues. The last one t...
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s reverso is a remarkable watch. This is because the case can be turned around while it remains on the wrist. Jaeger-LeCoultre developed this case construction to protect the vulnerable crystal from the hardship of the polo game. On one of my favorite forums, The PuristS Pro, a member?posted photos of his Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Grande GMT?undergoing a full service and thus...
I guess it’s that time again… the tingling is here again! My beloved 3717 has been on my wrist for some months now and the DJ’s bracelet has been sized to my girlfriends wrist size so it’s itsching again. I noticed i started looking at new option more seriously and making calculations. I was even asking myself the question if i was prepared to get rid of a watch to partiall...
It’s been a while since i made a post, but i’m gonna post more frequently from now on. Furthermore i’m switching to english, so a lot of friends from abroad can also read and share my enthousiasm for mechanical wristwatches.For this post i borred some pictures from a member from Watchprosite. He bought the Jaeger LeCoultre Master Extreme World Alarm last year and since i’ve...
Last year Longines announced a re-issue of an old Longines dive watch, the Longines Legend Diver. This year IWC does the same, only not with just one watch but with six vintage beauties. The resemblance of the six re-issues is incredibly close to the original models. Here are two of these beauties, the re-issue of the Aquatimer and the Ingenieur.IWC Ingenieur – vintage collectionIWC Aquatime...
Last Saturday was the first official European get-together (GTG) for members of watch forum Horomundi. Sixteen watch aficionados from Europe and even one from the USA, gathered in Maastricht to share their passion for fine watches. The attendees brought more watches than the one around their wrists. Mostly very impressive watches! In a private room at?retailer of several of the most prestigious wa...
TAG Heuer presented a truly innovative watch, the Monaco V4 Concept Watch. Inside is a mechanical movement where traditional pinions have been replaced by drive belts.Through time TAG Heuer has gained the name to be pioneer in chronograph development. Already in 1887 the company patented the oscillating pinion, an essential component in mechanical chronographs. And there are more innovations that ...
Panerai’s desire to move up? That’s at least what it seems like, now they’ve come with a bunch of new models featuring their new in-house movements.Over the last few months Panerai has introduced a number of new models, featuring their own new in-house movements… and a new price list. And since I’ve been planning to buy a new brother for my old PAM 00001 B series (199...
This month?most of?the big watch brands in the watch industry will show their new creations at the annual watch trade show in Basel, which is called Baselworld. Last month the Richemont brands (think: Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, Montblanc, Lange &?Sohne, Cartier, etc.) had their ‘fashion show’ in Geneva during the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie or short SIHH....
My first automatic watch ever! Bought on Ebay, after a long search online, looking for a nice and sturdy dive watch that could accompany me on my next vacation. It had to be a watch that would not require any battery exchange, and therefore, another kind of “mechanism” to indicate time. And that’s when I started to read about, learn about, automatic movements…?I had no idea...