Today on #TBT we’ll talk about a rare watch that’s known as the LeJour Fat Arrow chronograph. For a brand that later lived its life as the Yema export brand (incorporating many of their designs with only a name change on the dial or using Yema’s cases), LeJour actually created a long-lived design with its […]
Back at Baselworld 2016, the duo known as Gustaffson & Sjögren (GoS) surprised me with a new watch named Sarek. Its most obvious element is, of course, the beautiful dial made of Damascus steel. The Sarek dial is created from 164 layers of hand-forged steel. The unusual coloring is partially achieved by tempering the steel until the desired colors display.
Back at Baselworld 2016, the duo known as Gustaffson & Sjögren (GoS) surprised me with a new watch named Sarek. Its most obvious element is, of course, the beautiful dial made of Damascus steel.
The Sarek dial is created from 164 layers of hand-forged steel. The unusual coloring is partially achieved by tempering the steel until the desired colors display.
But what’s come now as the Sarek goes into distribution is really surprising: a special Sarek model just for women! Get the details here.
This is a story I’ve had in the back of my mind for a long time now – a quick reference guide on a few things I often see young or new watch guys get wrong. I am writing this because I was there once (not all that long ago), and I wish something like this had been there when I was just getting going. Now this isn’t a complete list of mistakes commonly made by new watch guys, and not everyone falls prey to every one of these, but I think many of you might pick up a thing or two that you may not have fully understood before. Here are 12 mistakes that new watch guys often make, and how to avoid them, from someone who has made many of them himself.
Getting a watch to be very thin is an interesting project, because you’re doing your absolute damnedest, and utilizing a great deal of watchmaking skill, to do something to a watch that should never be done to a watch: You’re seeing how much you can compromise it structurally before it becomes fatal. The whole thing is a lot like a carnival knife thrower hurling daggers at his beautiful assistant – it’s a heart-stoppingly terrible idea on one level, but the fact that it is foolhardy is kind of the whole point of the exercise (and it’s what makes it entertaining). Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Ultra Thin Squelette takes the already perverse fascination of ultra-flat watchmaking one step further and skeletonizes an already improbably thin mechanism, leaving behind not so much a watch as the idea of a watch.
For years, Frederique Constant have been quietly making elegant, understated watches at good values. Here, Frederique Constant isn’t holding back in showing how they value in-house-made movements with high-end finishing, and it doesn’t hurt that this one comes in an attractive package.
The short documentary film ‘Time Piece’ features two of the world’s best living watchmakers, Philippe Dufour and Vianney Halter, and provides insight into what makes the watches by these masters so special.
One is never at a loss for things to do in Paris. This week you can embark on Noah’s Ark with an haute jewellery collection from Van Cleef & Arpels, delight in a photography exhibition from Jaquet Droz, and get lost in time with the 12th edition of the “Les Montres” – the annual watch show in France that opens its doors to the public from September 22 – 24, 2016.
Farer watches, based in London and recently launched in 2015, presents their first collection of automatic watches with Farer’s “The Automatics.” Using reliable Swiss Made ETA 2824-2 automatic mechanical movements, the new Farer automatic watch collection is classically-inspired with a modern design language.
