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Our Predictions In The Ladies Category Of The 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG): Little Consensus, 4 Picks To Win

September 19, 2022/1 Comment/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions, Round Table, Arnold & Son, Chopard, Konstantin Chaykin, Parmigiani, Van Cleef & Arpels/by Elizabeth Doerr

Quill & Pad’s peanut gallery round tables kick off with six very different watches that have been shortlisted in the Ladies’ category of the 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.

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James Bond Had ‘No Time To Die’ With His Latest Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial Master Chronometer 007 Edition – Reprise

September 18, 2022/0 Comments/in Highlights, Omega/by Martin Green

In ‘No Time to Die,’ James Bond once again saved the world, this time with an Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial Master Chronometer 007 Edition on his wrist. Martin Green had all the details.

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Is This The World’s Oldest Known Watch? A Peter Henlein Mystery From 1505

December 15, 2014/23 Comments/in Science, Technology/by Elizabeth Doerr

It’s a story that could have come out of a thriller novel, and it‘s about the oldest known watch in the world, which was made in 1505 by Peter Henlein. The Pomander Watch (‘Bisamapfeluhr’), as it is known, was confirmed by committee of experts as having been the work of Peter Henlein in 1505.

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Does Hand Finishing Matter? A Collector’s View Of Movement Decoration

December 17, 2014/21 Comments/in Collectors and Collecting, A. Lange & Söhne, Breguet, Greubel Forsey, Kari Voutilainen, Patek Philippe, Philippe Dufour, Roger W Smith/by GaryG

[…] enthusiasts. Like many people, my starting point for serious watches was with a well-priced brand long known for its expertise in developing movements, justly viewed as offering good value for money – but not necessarily for the refinement of its movement finishing, at least on its less expensive pieces. What have I learned since then?

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Geneva Watch Days 2022 Round Table Discussion: What We Liked, What We Didn’t Like, And What We’d Buy

September 10, 2022/0 Comments/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions/by Elizabeth Doerr

The third edition of the sunny, COVID-19-friendly Geneva Watch Days came to a close on September 2, so of course we must talk about it. And this time we brought our friends Robert-Jan Broer of Fratello and Łukasz Doskocz of CH24! Please join this Quill & Pad round table discussion of what we did […]

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GaryG’s Early Winning Picks For The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie De Genève (GPHG) 2022

September 9, 2022/1 Comment/in Highlights, Events, Fairs & Exhibitions, Chopard, Hermès, MB&F/by GaryG

The 2022 GPHG finalists have been announced and GaryG gives a shoutout to several of the entries that he feels are of special merit or interest. He suspects that some, but not all, of them will be his winner picks but reserves the right to change his mind when the annual round tables commence.

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Zenith Ambassador And Supercoach Patrick Mouratoglou: ‘Little Details Make Big Differences’

August 29, 2022/2 Comments/in Highlights, Sports, Zenith/by Miguel Seabra

Patrick Mouratoglou morphed from a frustrated player in his teens into today’s perennial supercoach; he is able to deal with the highly complicated psyche and game of an elite competitor just the way a horologist is qualified to finetune a supercomplication. And he is a Zenith ambassador. Learn all about him here thanks to […]

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Two Unexpected Tennis Watches In 2022: Studio Underd0g’s Strawberries & Cream And Maurice De Mauriac’s Rallymaster

August 27, 2022/2 Comments/in Highlights, Affordable Luxury, Independents/by Elizabeth Doerr

Tennis and timepieces are coming ever closer together thanks in great part to brands spending more and more money on ambassadors. But not only! Elizabeth Doerr shares thoughts on two new tennis-themed watches from Studio Underd0g and Maurice De Mauriac.

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Grönefeld 1941 Grönograaf: My Once Predicted Winner For This Year’s ‘Best Chronograph’ At The 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève

August 20, 2022/7 Comments/in Grönefeld, Independents/by Ian Skellern

When Tim and Bart Grönefeld showed Ian Skellern their prototype 1941 Grönograaf during Watches & Wonders 2022, he loved it. But he didn’t think it would win “Best Chronograph” 2022 at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève because he thought that prize would go to the then-soon-to-be-released MB&F LM Sequential EVO. Ian has since changed […]

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In Praise of Anglage: Exceptional Hand-Finished Anglage Is Difficult, Slow, And Expensive So The Big Brands Have Given Up And Few Seem To Have Noticed (Or Seem To Care) – Thank God For The Indies!

August 21, 2022/12 Comments/in Technology/by Ian Skellern

[…] beautiful, reliable, and relatively accurate “traditional” mechanical watches, but the handcrafted work many of us value is disappearing. Highly skilled watchmakers and artisans are rare and expensive: there just aren’t enough of them available to churn out the large quantity of nice watches now being sold. And why bother when nobody seems to have noticed?

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