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 …
