Author Archives: Ken Kessler
October 19, 2012 - Following the remarkable results of the sale of George Daniels’ vintage cars, excitement is building for next month’s auction of his personal watch and clock collection. Owning a timepiece made by – or even once possessed by – the greatest watchmaker of the last century is a thought that wil...
June 29, 2012 - According to Michael Clerizo, George Daniels’ biographer, the recently deceased horological legend considered himself “a mechanic” as much as he was a master watchmaker. As Clerizo learned from Daniels himself, his passions were not merely the well-known duopoly of watches and cars, but mechan...
April 20, 2012 - Forget, for a moment, the clumsy mouthful of a name. It is, after all, a moniker conceived in a country that continues to use “novelties” as the term for new models. And while it might seem best-suited to a part from an Erector set of the 1950s, “Mikrogirder” succinctly describes TAG-Heuer's...
November 17, 2011 - By Ken Kessler
While there’s nothing to suggest that an undersea battle is going on in the world of watches, Rolex’s seabed-scraping Sea-Dweller Deepsea has finally been bested. The Rolex, secure to an astonishing 3,900m/12,800ft, must nod to a new “extreme” diving watch from Hublot, whic...
September 23, 2011 - Having conquered the skies with their range of pilots’ watches, English brand Bremont has its eyes set on the sea. Two thousand and nine’s launch of their first diving watch, the Supermarine 500 and the all-black limited edition Supermarine 500 Descent, has been followed by that most unexpected ...
