Dr George Daniels MBE CBE FSA may be the world’s greatest living watchmaker. Certainly he revived the art of handmade watchmaking in the 20th century and has produced some of the most incredible pieces that I have ever seen. With Roger W Smith, he has also created a range of watches which go well beyond…
In the main hall of SalonQP this year, huddled under a desk lamp, and hunched over a very small object was a lady. From afar, she looked liked she could have been doing a spot of brain surgery or perhaps laboratory work, as she peered through the twin eyepieces of a high-powered light microscope. In…
After London’s SalonQP 2010 VIP event last Thursday (11th November), I caught up with a very dear friend for a post-match debrief. It took a while – there were many things to discuss (and the Guinness at the Mason’s Arms deserved a decent go). But one thing we did talk about was the launch of Grand Seiko in…
Giuliano Mazzuoli is a designer with a penchant for watches. Having released the Manometro range in 2004 to not inconsiderable acclaim, he’s spent the past few years trying to develop a second range of watches. Now, finally, and after four year’s effort Mazzuoli has released the Contagiri, a watch with three worldwide patents and a rather…
Just been asked a question on Twitter: Why did Bell & Ross, Sinn, Beuchat, etc all try and make a seriously WR watch in the mid-90s? So I thought I’d try and write down some thoughts. In the history of deep watches, Rolex were the first, with their Deep Sea Special on 30 September 1953;…
William Chase (founder of Tyrrell’s crisps and the award-winning Chase Vodka) has been talking to MSN recently about making one’s millions in food (see the full article here). Reading the article got me thinking that there really doesn’t appear to be much difference in the approach to marketing and selling food (crisps), drink (Vodka, gin…
Right. This one”s a little different. Most of what I know about this watch has been gleaned from French dive watch forums (see list below). There was a small arms race in watchmaking in the mid-90s: a race to develop oil-filled watches that would be able to resist incredible pressures (below 300ATM). One of the competitors,…
Spurred on by recent claims from new entrants that there is little to offer the consumer in the $1000 dive watch market, I thought I’d try and provide a brief synopsis of what’s really out there. As I see it, consumers have three basic choices in this market: 1) tried and test, “prosumer” watches, such as…