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Raketa “Avant-Garde”

May 23, 2023CronotempVs CollectorsActualidad, Contributors, Editor's choice, Friend of the Club, Independents, Watches

The Horophile has reimagined the Raketa Avant-Garde in his distinctive violet hue, paying homage to the visionary Russian modern artists of the late 19th and early 20th century. The Russian Avant-Garde movement has had an immeasurable and undeniable influence on the realm of contemporary art. Drawing inspiration from Malevich’s suprematism, Lissitzky’s constructivism, and Kandinsky’s abstraction,...

May

Vulcain Cricket «André Didixein »

May 17, 2023CronotempVs CollectorsCollectors Editions, Editor's choice, Friend of the Club, Independents, News, Presentation, Watches

Vulcain Cricket André “DIDIXEIN” Ditisheim. The Swiss watchmaker and football player of Madrid FC Vulcain is one of the independent brands that has left a mark in Swiss watchmaking. In 1858 the Ditisheim brothers founded the watch manufacture Ditisheim Frères in La Chaux-de-Fonds. A few years later, in 1894, the founder of the manufacture Maurice...

May

00RED by Ball Watch Co.

June 30, 2022CronotempVs CollectorsActualidad, Collectors Editions, Editor's choice, News, Presentation, Review, Watches

Ball Watch and CronotempVs Collectors join to present the 00RED When CronotempVs Collectors decided to collaborate in a piece by Ball Watch Co. it was clear that making a special piece would not be a easy task. Amongst all the possibilities, the Engineer III stood out as the most pragmatic choice to build upon. The goal was...

Jun

Zeitwinkel 126º CronotempVs Collectors

March 12, 2022CronotempVs CollectorsActualidad, Collectors Editions, Editor's choice, News, Presentation, Press Release, Watches

Zeitwinkel and CronotempVs Collectors present the 126º. A new direction for a traditional watchmaker Few movements are so unique and inspiring as is the ZW0102 by Zeitwinkel. A standalone automatic movement in its category. The ZW0102 is assembled and adjusted by one watchmaker in its entirety. A philosophy that is no longer followed by most commercial...

Mar

Unimatic – Modelo 1 to 4

March 4, 2022Santiago MasBoutique-Brand, Editorial, Independents, Micro-Brands, News

Unimatic offer something different The watch micro-brand landscape may seem overwhelming some times. The amount of new brands that pop up every day in the watch scene has long surpassed what the average watch enthusiast can retain. But every once-in-a-while one of those brands manages to bring a real breath of fresh air to the...

Mar

The Endurance by Habring2

February 20, 2022ScaramangaCollectors Editions, Editorial, Friend of the Club, Independents, Watches

The anachronistic voyage… I have doubts if these few lines are of any interest to anybody at all. This is certainly not a bit to “shill” the Endurance by Habring2 (already sold out) especially about the wonderful piece by Watchonista a couple of days ago. It isn’t even a review of the Endurance, but instead...

Feb

BIDDING WARS!

December 21, 2021Audrey HumbertEditorial, News, Opinion

Insiders’ thoughts: who is bidding at watch auction? With Only Watch and Phillip’s leading the way, watch auctions have attracted a lot of attention breaking records after records. Many observers are quite concerned about these bidding wars, especially watch lovers. The million dollar mark It was only a decade ago that the first Rolex ever,...

Dec

Felipe Pikullik, hand craftsmanship from Berlin

December 9, 2021Santiago MasEditorial, Independents, Micro-Brands, News, Watches

An independent watchmaker on the rise Felipe Pikullik is a young talent from the long list of watchmakers trained in the Glashütte watchmaking tradition. While the watch world routinely reveres, and rightly so, the likes of Philippe Dufour, F.P. Journe or Roman Gautier for their superb hand-finishing and watchmaking craftsmanship, the watch industry is not...

Dec

The Oostpoort Royal Blue

November 30, 2021Santiago MasEditorial, Micro-Brands, News, Watches

Delft Watch Works Today we initiate this new weekly series dedicated to promising micro-brands and rising talents of the independent watch scene. And for this first article we have chosen Delft Watch Works, a relatively unknown brand whose work we’ve been following up for some time now. The Oostpoort Royal Blue is their first model...

Nov

ONLY WATCH 2021

November 19, 2021Audrey HumbertEditor's choice, Editorial, Events, News, Opinion

ONLY WATCH 2021 was held on 6th November and at this occasion CHF 30 million were raised for the charity Exceptional and unique timepieces to support research into Duchenne muscular distrophy: this is what Only Watch is about. The vision of his founder, Luc Pettavino, former CEO of the Monaco Yacht Show, was clear from...

Nov

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