Article It’s a busy auction month coming, and three big auction houses will again tempt you to part with your money in exchange for beautiful, collectable and rare pieces. While the concept of an auction originally aimed at selling at low, executional price levels, nowadays it’s the opposite. Phillips Auctions, Christie’s, Antiquorum and the likes are […]

Article In 1939 two Portuguese businessmen, Rodrigues and Teixeira, paid a visit to the Swiss manufacturer, IWC in Schaffhausen. They both requested a wristwatch with chronometer precision. Which IWC had not done before. As many other watch manufacturers of the time, IWC mostly worked with pocket watches at that time, which explains why they opted for […]

Article When you’re 45 years of age today, you were 20 in 1995. Your mid-teens and early twenties are formative years when it comes to developing your taste whether it is music, movies, cars or.. watches. Whatever touches the right spot at the age of 20, will most likely stay with you forever.  So, let’s analyse […]

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Article Panerai is well known for their history of dive watches, but they are also pioneers when it comes to innovative materials, or doing something no one else has done so far

Article In 2020 Geneva based independent watch brand Czapek & Cie is celebrating their 175th Anniversary. The brand that has been revived in 2011 by Xavier de Roquemaurel, Harry Guhl and Sébastien Follonier through an equity campaign that brought together more than 100 watch enthusiasts who raised more than 2 million CHF. This funding allowed Czapek […]