There are certain things one simply doesn’t do with valuable watches. Some of those things include underwater diving with a minute repeater and taking apart and modifying a limited edition early A. Lange & Sohne Tourbillon. However, if you must do the latter, it might as well be done tastefully, and by a fellow German […]
Was it worth it for Grieb & Benzinger to sacrifice an A. Lange & Sohne Tourbillon for the one-of-a-kind Blue Merit watch? We talk about new watches from Ulysse Nardin as well as the Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon 5 – which is pretty cool. Listen to the HourTime Show watch podcast episode 158 here. […]
This is not going to be one of those articles that is seeped in watch movement technicalities. This is going to be about the visual appreciation of thorough watch decoration. Sometime you want a watch that is just stunning to look at. You gaze deeply in its rich complexity noticing minute details bearing the attention […]
Back in 2014, the German team of Grieb & Benzinger that produces one-of-a-kind highly decorated watches debuted the “Blue Merit” (read our original article here) which was a lovely timepiece that began life as limited edition A. Lange & Söhne. I encourage you to read that original article about the Grieb & Benzinger Blue Merit […]
Grieb & Benzinger themselves personally shared with me that they never thought they would make a watch quite like this. Called the Area 51, this absolute unique timepiece borne of hand-decoration and fantastic German artistic skills is about space aliens. Oh, and we’d like to have a little “caption contest” with readers, just read more […]
There are new watches galore as we check out new timepieces from a wide range of price points, including a modified Seiko inspired by Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms, Nomos’ new Metro watch, A. Lange & Söhne’s exquisite Zeitwerk Striking and Greubel Forsey’s mad GMT watch. We also explain why Audemars Piguet have chosen to collaborate with […]
Watch news is always filled with stories of innovation, exotic materials, new complications, and novel ways of displaying information. While “new” is often exciting, there is something splendidly serene about seeing traditional, as opposed to modern, watch art. There was a time around the turn of the 20th century when watch making went in two […]
I’d like to say that this UTS Adventure II watch with unique Benzinger decorated movement represents the past and future of German watch making. But that would be incorrect. In fact this watch represents the legacy of German watch making by combining two major areas where German watch makers have excelled over the Swiss. UTS […]
Tony W. from London, UK asks: Tony, the best way we can answer this is by offering what a few people on the team have responded to your (quite difficult) question. It is hard to love one watch when you love “watches.” Ariel Adams: No limit: Greubel Forsey Double Tourbillon Technique. $1000 limit: Most […]
A few years ago, owner of Australian retailer Define Watches, Peter Petzold, envisioned a five-minute repeater watch that would take advantage of the utmost in technical mastery while displaying an equal dose of old-world craftsmanship that is so often overlooked in the digital age. His vision led to the collaboration of Habring2’s Richard and Maria […]