I will admit to being a hard person to please! Most things I query, moan, criticise and frown over. I just can’t help it. I suppose it is just in my nature to strive for perfection in a world that increasingly settles for second best. Unsurprisingly, my angst flows into …
The official Chopard press release states that this new model is a reinterpretation the St Moritz piece, launched in 1980 and created by Karl-Friedrich Scheafele, now co-president of the Maison. There are certainly similarities, both being basically steel sports watches and having exposed screw heads around the bezel. From a …
Silver Spitfire Begins Journey I first wrote about this iconic watch series a few months ago after attending the IWC Silver Spitfire event at Goodwood in April, in conjunction with a Members Meeting for historic racing cars. I have now attended the second event in August and so now cover/update …
I do confess a liking of brands that have an interesting story to tell. Panerai, with origins back to WW2 (and before) when they produced their large and robust Radiomir watch for divers of the Royal Italian Navy, is an obvious candidate. However, for me, that was not always the …
Have you ever wondered how a watch is made or who makes the components? For me, to be frank, such questions never really crossed my mind – at least for many years. As long as I liked the appearance of a watch, it did what I wanted and I could …
I was recently in Switzerland to visit some atelier manufactures in the watch making region near Neuchatel. This was both fascinating and impressive and I will be writing separately about this in due course. During my trip I added some extra days, and on one of these returned to Geneva …
Some 10 years plus ago, and before I really got more seriously into watches, I knew very little about B&R. If I am being honest, at one point I thought they were an also-ran US make! My education however has mercifully since improved! So, in fact the company is actually …
As mentioned elsewhere, I have a fondness for chronographs and in particular IWC offerings. One reason for this is that my first “expensive” watch was a Der Flieger Chronograph (reference 3741) back in 2000. This is a baby at only 36mm and is also quartz – one of the last …
I will admit to being fond of chronographs! I am though not alone in this penchant, and I think to be fair most men have a weakness for this particular genre, with their dials, buttons and so on. OK, like most folks I barely use the stopwatch feature, but back …
