Lunchtime Lecture - Sandwich Dials, Their Origin & History
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6M ago
A Sandwich what!? You read correctly- the sandwich dials were introduced during the 1930s and presented themselves as some of the most intricate, most special features of visual depth one could ima ..read more
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The Coup No One Speaks About - Longines First Automatic Movement
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6M ago
The automatic movement - something we consider normal in modern watches - was still an experimental concept during the 1940s. And brands had to work around the gold-standard Rolex patents, which me ..read more
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Miniaturization & Modernization - Jaeger-LeCoultre's Ingenious Duoplan Movement
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7M ago
Jaeger-LeCoultre didn't really sell fully assembled watches on a larger scale until... well, until when actually? What timepiece was the grand entrance to the vertically integrated watchmaking stag ..read more
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Why Even Bother? - Watch Finishing Techniques Beyond Aesthetics
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7M ago
The fine decorations on watch movements are just for aesthetics, right? Well, that's not how it all started! Looking through the Centuries we can see that most artisanal techniques we can still fin ..read more
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Why Movado Matters - Meet the Movado Triple-Calendar (1938-54)
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7M ago
Do you know who launched the world's first automatic Triple-Calendar wristwatch...? Movado is one of The traditional Swiss watch manufacturers yet little is known about their pieces and their legac ..read more
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Ultra-Thin & Symmetrical - The Secret of Patek Philippe's Backwinding Automatic
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7M ago
Meet the third generation of Patek Philippe automatic watches. And not any ordinary movement as the caliber 350 is neither a full-rotor, a bumper, nor a Micro-Rotor. The Caliber 350 is the first se ..read more
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Watches of the Olympic Games & What they stand for
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8M ago
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner - and the newest Omega "Limited Editions" are hitting the stores. Thus, I thought we should take a closer look at the last Century's timepie ..read more
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C.R. Spillmann - The Making of the Rolex Oyster & Beyond
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9M ago
The case maker C.R. Spillmann is the masterful artisan that brought us the very first Oyster cases in 1926 and was ultimately swallowed up by Rolex in the 1980s. However, in between those two impac ..read more
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The Deceptive Oyster - Meet The Rolex "Empire"
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9M ago
Let's recap the last time I felt like a naive idiot with a laptop rather than a watch "expert". It's been auction season in Geneva these last couple of days and it's normal that some of the results ..read more
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About Those Curves - The Quest for Comfortable Watches
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9M ago
Haptics matter as much as aesthetics to me. Sooo have you ever worn a Polyplan? Or a Cintree, a Curvex? The ergonomics are an increasingly important factor in our watch world. It's still an underap ..read more
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