Tag: Breguet

Six Small Words: Historic

Published by the #watchnerd on July 28, 2013

This is the first in a series of posts inspired by six words that are used by the late Dr George Daniels to describe watches in The Watchmaker’s Apprentice: historic; intellectual; technical; aesthetic; useful; and amusing. The Watchmaker’s Apprentice is a documentary about the lives of Roger Smith and Dr George…

Basel Through a Telescope, Part 1

Published by the #watchnerd on March 12, 2012

Some of you may recall that I managed to miss last year’s BaselWorld (I was off trying to capture the Northern Lights in the Lappish Arctic Circle). Never a man to learn from his mistakes, I almost completely failed to reach Switzerland this year as well. I say “almost completely”…