The watch we are about to present today is the new variant of the upgraded 2022 Mirrored Force Resonance, first launched in 2016. It comes to market only a few months after the Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance Manufacture Edition Blue, with dial colour and the strap offered as the only difference between the two. […]
To kick things off, this will be a very personal story, and yes, it is about a mechanical watch. When I first got into watchmaking, I knew very little about the history of the industry or the different regions in the world that dominate it. My knowledge came from magazines, movies and TV shows, billboards […]
Despite the breakthrough in materials, engineering technologies and manufacturing equipment, the new millennium has yet to produce much innovation in mechanical chronograph movement design. Still, upgrades to how chronographs function occasionally impress watchmaking enthusiasts, like the MB&F Sequential EVO or the AgenGraphe by Agenhor. Much to our joy, one of the most beautifully executed attempts […]
For the latest instalment of the Collector’s Series, we meet with Rob. He runs a software company that he founded in Seattle, Washington, thirty years ago, called Inteum. Inteum develops software for managing intellectual property and innovations and has customers around the world in 34 countries at the last count. As he explains, “One of […]
It is a fact that the majority of high school graduates around the world can not tell the time from traditional dials. I remember reading a few years back that the Brits began replacing analogue clocks with digital ones in schools, with urgency to do so in the rooms where the exams for the certificate […]
The name Simon Brette might not ring a bell, except maybe to a small group of highly seasoned collectors. Yet, Simon has been behind the conception of many important modern watches by renowned independent watchmakers (think Chronode, MB&F and more). Two years ago, following some changes in his personal life and probably the effect of […]
The FFC origins, look and works have been described and explained, and the new production timepiece differs slightly in presentation. Still, quickly highlighting the essential points sounds like a good idea. In 2021, the FFC Blue prototype was sold at the Only Watch auction to benefit Duchenne muscular dystrophy research for CHF 4,5 million, more […]
Arnold & Son is named after John Arnold, the celebrated 18th-century English watchmaker whose precision marine chronometers were vital instruments to calculate longitude and used by navigators like James Cook on his voyages to the Pacific. The theme of reliable travel companions continues at Arnold & Son with its Double Tourbillon model offering two separate […]
Two years ago, Montblanc presented a chronograph with an inverted Minerva movement to showcase the fascinating mechanics of this historic calibre on the dial. In a departure from the solid vintage pilot looks of the Minerva Monopusher Red Arrow that was unveiled simultaneously, the two limited editions of The Unveiled Secret Minerva Monopusher Chronograph were […]
To many, Jaeger-LeCoultre is, first and foremost, the Reverso, represented by plenty of models with incredible mechanical and artistic complications to please the most discerning customer. However, contrary to what you might think, for a good two-thirds of its existence, since 1931 and until 1990, the Reverso collection featured time-only watches. The king of complications, […]