Bronze watch patina
Bronze watch patina – love it, leave it or nothing else The term or phrase bronze watch patina removal is the most searched phrase on the largest internet search engine related to “bronze watch”. Bronze...
How to become a watch fan? An explanation.
Why watches? Part 1: The 70s and 80s and why watches blow my mind I Being a child of the seventies and concerning watches, I have remained a child and am purely emotion-driven. Everyone who...
Buying used watches from ebay – 10 essential rules
Buying used Ebay watches can be fun. With these 10 rules. If you want to buy used watches on ebay, you can do so with confidence. The selection is huge. In the following I give...
A visit to the furniturist Maurizio Zannol.
Furnitures are spare parts for clocks. Furnishings, that’s what you think of when you think of furniture. Learned something again. The word comes from the French “furniture” and means delivery. Since that has been clarified...
Baselworld and AHCI
The Academie Horlogere de Createurs Independants (AHCI) is my highlight at Baselworld, always. “My” Baselworld this year was actually like last year, lots of time at the AHCI, the Academie Horlogere de Createurs Independants. A...
New Oris watches at Baselworld 2019
Here are my Oris novelties from Baselworld 2019. I’d like to take a quick look at the new models from Oris. Why? Some Facebook contacts have expressed wishes as to what I should look at....
The Other Boutique: A Visit with Martin Pauli aka Angular Momentum
A necessity for the big watchmakers, a virtue for the independents: Martin Pauli is a one-man show and the workshop is also a showroom for the customers. Baselworld versus boutiques and the internet Admittedly, Martin...
Schools remove analogue clocks from exam rooms.
Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam rooms because teenagers cannot tell the time, a representative of the UK teachers’ union has said. Teachers are now installing digital clocks after students complained in their GCSE...
Munichtime. The watch fair in Munich.
Watch fairs tend to be based in Switzerland. Wait a minute… If you look for watch events, you will find three in Munich. Anyway, there are three big events. Firstly, there is the Uhren Technik...
Omega – Warum sind sie so berühmt? Der Besuch im Museum in Biel klärt auf.
Biel is located in Switzerland and is (a) stronghold of the watch industry. Biel is, without checking, economically the largest location for the industry. Rolex and Omega are here and many other companies. That interests...