Time piece

It goes without saying: 2020 was far from an ideal year for most of us. Looking back, however, it was also a year that brought many noteworthy watch launches despite the huge obstacles posed by the pandemic and its effects on the world economy. As we look ahead hopefully to 2021, it's time for our a

Taking a closer look at one of the most iconic and influential sport watches of all time.

One of the most distinctive sport watches in the world is the Rolex GMT-Master II with the red and blue bezel which is often affectionately referred to as the "Pepsi bezel" in reference to the soft drink producer's long standing color theme. Of course, in the mid 1950s when Rolex was designing and first released the original GMT-Master the theme of their first aviation watch was not cola.

The Midnight Planétarium is an incredible feat of engineering, design and artistic craftsmanship. Besides showing the time, this watch also accurately displays the movement of 6 planets in our solar system as they orbit the Sun. The watch took 396 pieces and 3 whole years of work to complete so, along with the precious stones dotting its surface, the $245,000 price tag comes as no surprise. However, one can always dream!

It has been quite a while since we heard about Bernhard Lederer Universe, a high-end manufacture run by independent watchmaker Bernhard Lederer. However, we hav...

There comes a time when your watch collection outgrows your nightstand. So you put them in the valet on top of your dresser, but that doesn’t last long, so you…

The Thomas Prescher Mysterious Automatic Double Axis Tourbillon First pictures in the wild. Thomas had a problem: How to make the visibility of the tourbillon even better than his present watches. The solution: Just tuck everything except the tourbillon o

Time is something that cannot be seen, cannot be touched, smelled or be tasted. How is it then that we can visualise this vague concept within the physical space that we perceive with our senses? Hegel in the first section of his book “The Philosophy of Nature” (§257) says: “Space ‘is’ time, that is time […]

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