SmartWatches… Yes, SmartWatches… Again
With today’s dropping of Motorola’s Moto 360, and an anticipated product announcement next week by long-time smartwatch genre holdout Apple, I thought I’d weigh in one more time about smartwatches. A friend of mine who should know – he’s an ex-Dell marketing guy – claims none other than Apple industrial design genius Jony Ive has […]
GPHG 2014 Pre-Selection
That time of year has come again. Around this time last year I commented and wrote a piece on the Girard-Perregaux Constant Escapement L.M. which had won the conveted Aguille D’Or. The top prize in the ‘Academy Awards’ of the watch world. This time much like last, you, the well versed and knowledgable watchnerds and […]
A Conversation with Bruno Grande, Managing Director of JEANRICHARD
I had the opportunity and utmost luck to be able to have a conversation with Mr. Bruno Grande of JEANRICHARD. This was in fact during a fantastic event day at the Emirates Stadium, home of The Arsenal Football Club earlier on this year. Such an event even gave me, your humble commentator to score a […]
Swedish Ingenuity, Organic Design – GoS Watches
The partnership between master blade smith Johan Gustafsson and watchmaker Patrik Sjogren was forged to provide truly unique watches, inspired by the beauty of northern Scandinavia and the ancient Swedish tradition of metallurgy. This year’s BaselWorld saw the debut of their new Bifrost collection, and the main attraction was a prototype of the Isblå (ice blue). Production of […]