Prominent figures who patronized the Abercrombie & Fitch Company in its excursion goods days include Amelia Earhart, Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Teddy Roosevelt, John Steinbeck,… Read More »Abercrombie & Fitch 1958 Manual Chronograph
In the early ’70s, the company still produced watches made in Switzerland for various military contracts, and this Hamilton is one produced for Britain’s Royal… Read More »Hamilton 0552 Pilot 1975 Manual Chronograph
In the days before GPS technology an accurate chronometer was a vital navigational aid. Marine chronometers were fairly large clocks, often mounted within a wooden… Read More »Navigational Complications
Girard-Perregaux’s oldest roots lie in the work of Jean-François Bautte, the Geneva watchmaker jeweller who presented his first creations in 1791 and whose succession Girard-Perregaux… Read More »Jean-François Bautte In Geneva, 1791
In 1884, IWC secured the rights to the Pallweber system, developed by Joseph Pallweber, a Salzburg watchmaker, and started producing the first “digital” watches in… Read More »A Big Date For The Perpetual Calendar
A new creative spirit. At the end of the bicentenary year, Besson expressed a desire to retire and to sell Girard-Perregaux. Macaluso – who, as… Read More »Girard-Perregaux Tourbillon With Three Gold Bridges
To discover the origins of the Vintage Pulsographe, one must look back through the unbroken 153-year history of the Minerva Manufacture to the 1930s, when… Read More »Montblanc Vintage Pulsographe
The new Tourbillon Bi-Cylindrique represents a horological innovation that introduces many new featurese to haute horlogerie. It is the first wristwatch with a tourbillon escapement… Read More »Montblanc Tourbillon Bi-Cylindrique
Mechanical watches are not only by and large more expensive and complex than quartzes, they are also a little high-maintenance, as it were. The mechanism… Read More »Watch Your Watch
The Grande Complication is, without doubt, a watchmaking sensation. In watchmaking, the name has been used since time immemorial for only the most complex of… Read More »Grande Complication – Beyond All Time
Generally speaking a mainspring barrel will perform about 6 rotations during its autonomy (the time it takes to transition from a fully wound state to… Read More »Extra Power
When it comes to recording lapses of time there is one dominant complication – the chronograph. The common chronograph features its own seconds hand, minute… Read More »Recording Lapses Of Time