You probably know Hamilton for their affordable yet very interesting mechanical timepieces. We visited them yesterday and they showed us their masterpiece ...
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The question that remains is: “Which one should I buy?” That’s not an easy question to answer though, as the buyer of such a timepiece is mainly driven on emotional arguments. However, despite that you can’t go wrong with either of these watches, there are some differences in the cons...
During the last few days Liu Bolin has been active in Germany and did a very nice camouflage piece in the MIK in Ludwigsburg (Germany). He made himself disappear in front of a newsstand. On Liu Bolin you will find the German watch magazine called Uhren Magazine. On the right of Liu, y...
When Rolex introduced the Yacht-Master in 1992, a full gold version in 40mm. It wasn’t until 1999 that Rolex came up with the Rolesium Yacht-Master (stainless steel and platinum), reference (1)16622. The Yacht-Master II was introduced in 2007 and until now only available in gold and b...
Ming Thein is being interviewed by this photography magazine (the biggest on photography in the U.K.) in February, telling the readers about making his step from a corporate environment to being a professional photographer. Of course, it also tells the reader what we already know, how...
The situation is I personally consider myself a student of the topic at hand. Maybe I’m a good student, perhaps even a “gifted” student (your mileage will vary), but a student nonetheless. When I crack open a book by the likes of James Dowling, Mr. Imai, Marco Richon or a number of ot...
Because of the weather, the schedule needed to be changed. So before we got to see the actual watches and get some explanation on the use of ceramics and carbon, we needed to head down to the pitbox first. In the pitbox, there was a 2004 Formula 1 car, a race car simulator and a set-u...
What you don’t see on the new Speedmaster Professional ‘Racing’ is the rocket itself. The original prototype of the watch also had this famous Tintin rocket (as can be seen above) on the dial. OMEGA took the design of this Tintin homage to the publisher of these comic albums and propo...
Another surprise was the gold/steel Nautilus Chronograph reference 5980/1AR that was shown to us during our meeting with Patek Philippe. Although we’re not a big fan of this combination in most cases, this Patek definitely falls into the exceptions category. Like a beautiful lady that...