Category: Style and watches

Earth friendly artist uses vintage watch parts to create miniature sculptures and jewellery.

New Jersey based artist Susan Beatrice has created miniature sculptures and jewellery out of recycled vintage watch parts.

Her incredible artwork aims to inspire and attract followers of the 19th century industrial era, and carefully combines her imagination with her love for nature to create beautifully, intricate pieces.

Continue reading “Earth friendly artist uses vintage watch parts to create miniature sculptures and jewellery.”

Historic Breguet watches set for showcase exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion Of Honour museum

Anyone worth their salt will be aware of the fact that Abraham Louis Breguet is regularly referred to as the father of watchmaking. Breguet, being such a powerful name both historically and in modern society in the context of mechanical watch making means that many people are keen to experience some of his works in the flesh if they hadn’t had the good fortune to as of yet.

A wonderful example of a Breguet MG watch – Pieces of Time, London Continue reading “Historic Breguet watches set for showcase exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion Of Honour museum”

Are Apple watches eating the watch market up, or could they be the start of something beautiful?

September 2014, and the Apple chief designer Jony Ivemade some clear and incisive remarks about his company’s debut wearable device (The Apple Watch) to declare that the Swiss watch industry was ‘in trouble’. He’s not the first to make these kinds of remarks, or statements of intent. Swiss horologists have remained defiant in previous situations of extinction, and it can be done again.

An Apple watch on the wrist of a man looking at antique watches-Pieces of Time Continue reading “Are Apple watches eating the watch market up, or could they be the start of something beautiful?”