March 2, 2012 - A first-time observer might be forgiven for thinking that the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi Calendar is a manual-wind watch. After all, he or she would not see anything like a traditional fan-shaped oscillating weight upon turning the watch over to peer into its movement. But closer inspection would r...

March 14, 2012 - There’s perhaps nothing more gratifying for the serious watch collector than owning a piece of horological history. That’s exactly what Jaeger-LeCoultre proposes with its Proto Zero watches—highly sought-after original prototypes of the Swiss Manufacture’s most iconic limited-edition mod...

March 9, 2012 - A 28-inch tall automaton with 600-piece mechanism called The Writer depicts a little boy sitting on a stool writing with a goose-quill pen on a mahogany table. The lifelike boy is programmable to write any forty-character text onto three lines, one letter at a time, on a piece of paper that shifts i...

March 7, 2012 - Last November Hamilton CEO Sylvain Dolla traveled from Switzerland to Los Angeles to preside over what has become, in a short five-year period, one of his company’s biggest media events, the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards. Unlike other sporting, entertainment, and cultural events whose title sp...

March 6, 2012 - A most interesting niche among Swiss watches are those with power reserves of at least eight days.  As more and more Swiss watch companies have become manufactures, they have looked for new complications to add to their line of movements, and these often require more powerful mainsprings with longe...

March 5, 2012 - Spend less than a minute playing with Christophe Claret’s 21 BlackJack, and you’ll instantly appreciate the skill and playfulness of the Le Locle-based master watchmaker. A watchmaker is what we call Claret, perhaps because we lack a term that fully conveys what he means to the industry. He is, ...

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