Last week, the Board of Directors of RJ Watches SA — previously Romain Jerome — announced the company’s bankruptcy application in Switzerland. The word came as a shock — not just to the watch-loving community, but also to the brand’s than 30 employees. After all, since Marco Tedeschi to over as CEO just a…
A look at watches with a variety of horological complications and functions above and beyond telling time.
Armin Strom Gravity Equal Force Explained: Video
The most recent release from Armin Strom — the Gravity Equal Force — is an amazing timepiece. In all of its potential iterations, it is the sum of about 10 years of work by the young independent brand. It is the culmination of amazing work in the field of constant and equal force, as well…
Video: Kerbedanz Maximus Tourbillon Explained
A relatively young brand by watchmaking standards, Kerbedanz is an independent Swiss brand that creates some of the most alluring and artistic watches on the luxury market. Additionally, its pieces are all created in very limited numbers. Such is the case with the Maximus Tourbillon, the world’s largest tourbillon, which is created in a limited…
Hands On With The Franck Dubarry Fileteado GMT
By Steve Huyton Previously the founder of a late 1990’s brand known as TechnoMarine, Franck Dubarry, has always had a penchant to create unusual timepieces. When he founded TehnoMarine in 1997, he made a name for the fashion-forward brand by adorning rubber strapped dive watches with diamonds. Having long since left that brand behind…
Introducing The MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT Without Diamonds
Around this time last year, my good friends over at MB&F unveiled their first women’s watch: LM FlyingT. While I d the watch, I was very vocal about the fact that I wished they had done a non-diamond version for those of us women who mechanics over bling. Max Busser, whom I have known…
Video: Thierry Collot Of Zenith Explains The El Primero Chronomaster 2
Recently, we had some time to catch up with Zenith USA head, Thierry Collot, who to the time to explain the brand’s recently released El Primero Chronomaster 2 (available with either a blue or black bezel). The watch demonstrates the brand’s incredible accuracy in timekeeping and is an evolution of its El Primero mechanical caliber…