The end of Baselworld is like coming down off a really brutal high. The intense energy of the show is only matched by how busy you are. Nights are filled with long European style dinners that take forever, but go by quickly as the conversation is engaging. Watch lovers can be themselves – this is […]
In 2009 Francois Quentin started the new brand 4N to produce the 4N-MVT01/D01 watch that we debuted back here in 2010. It was an ambitious project that involved the production of a fully mechanical watch that showed the time digitally on a series of overlapping discs. In 2011 we offered a hands-on look at a […]
How time flies, it’s the end of yet another month and time for yet another installment of our bi-weekly roundup of the best watch articles from here and around the internet. In this edition, we find out what our Contributing Editor James Stacey thought of his first ever visit to Baselworld; we visit the Patek […]
4N is a relatively new watch company that was started in 2009 by Francois Quentin. If you are not familiar with the name, know that Mr. Quentin is one of the main people behind Hautlence – another high-end brand – and he was also responsible for the design of Louis Vuitton’s Tambour watches. The MVT-01/D01 […]
The unique case shape and digital time display of the 4N watch has been around for a few years now, and for 2015 it receives its most notable – and somewhat unexpected – update yet: the 4N Sapphire Planet wraps the original digital-mechanical movement in a sapphire crystal case. “Sapphire.” Even the way it sounds is something […]
