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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

Trilobe, an architectural interpretation of time

October 25, 2021Audrey HumbertEditor's choice, Editorial, Independents, Watches

Earlier this year, Trilobe participated for the first time to Watches & Wonders. I had the great pleasure of discovering their interpretation of time. Without really being able to explain why, I intuitively figured out the French roots of Trilobe. Indeed, Gautier Massoneau, founder, anchored the brand in France. Or should I say in Paris?...

Oct

10 Years L.U.C. & CronotempVs

October 1, 2021ScaramangaClub Watch, Editor's choice, Editorial, Friend of the Club, Independents, Watches

When time counts Who could have predicted over 12 years ago, when this adventure started, that the independents (that back then nobody wanted) would be so much in demand today? Looking back, the change in attitude with respect to these relatively unknown brands was hardly perceived. What seemed to impossible is the acceptance of those...

Oct

Watchonista: Volume 01

August 24, 2021CronotempVs CollectorsEditor's choice, Friend of the Club, News, Press Release, Smoke, Society, Style

Watchonista Introduces The Watch Magazine You Can’t Buy · Watchonista: Volume 01 Watchonista is proud to announce the upcoming launch of Watchonista: Volume 01 on Wednesday, August 25, 2021. It represents the online magazine’s first official foray into the world of print. This exclusive biannual magazine won’t be sold in bookstores or anywhere else, for...

Aug

IWC Aquatimer 2000

August 16, 2021WatchstyloClub Watch, Editor's choice, Editorial, Friend of the Club, Review

This is how CronotempVs and the Aquatimer 2000 came into my life I had been travelling rather extensively the past few years and it was on one of my trips to Europe in 2016 that I decided to step into IWC in Madrid. It was a last minute decision made on the spur of the...

Aug

Cigar maintenance and the “long” game…

July 27, 2021ScaramangaNews, Smoke

If there is one thing I wish not to know is how much I must have spent on humidors in my lifetime… large, small, elegant, ugly, vintage, modern, electronic, expensive, cheap… You name it, I probably bought it. I have tried miracle liquids, special sponges and electronic paraphernalia with no positive results and only yielding...

Jul

Bronze Patina

June 22, 2021ScaramangaEditor's choice, Editorial, Friend of the Club, News, Opinion, Photoreportage, Press Release

One of the first questions you will come across when you buy your first bronze watch. Do I wait for the bronze patina to evolve with the passing of time or do I control and provoke it? For the first option, the only ingredient required is patience. For the second, just a simple tutorial will...

Jun

CronotempVs by Habring2 COSZM

April 22, 2021@horoptimistClub Watch, Editor's choice, Editorial, Friend of the Club, News, Review, Watches

The CronotempVs by Habring2 COSZM is the 2nd collaboration between the Club and Maria and Richard Habring following the highly successful and warm reception to the CronotempVs 6 Deadbeat Seconds complication. For this limited edition Club watch, the focus is on something that has technical and historical significance to the only true independent watchmakers from...

Apr

A day at the Audemars Piguet Musée Atelier

March 11, 2021Audrey HumbertContributors, Editor's choice, Editorial, Friend of the Club, Independents, News, Opinion, Press Release, Visits, Watches

Spending time at the Audemars Piguet Musée Atelier, in the middle of the pandemic, was a terrific experience. Expectations were high and still, they were surpassed. Means have been deployed to make everything tick right for a wow experience. The brand new Audemars Piguet Musée Atelier was finally inaugurated, or should I say opened due...

Mar

CronotempVs VI by Habring2

February 19, 2021ScaramangaClub Watch, Editor's choice, Editorial, Friend of the Club, News, Watches

The Day the Seconds Stood Still Presenting a “Dead-Beat Seconds” or “Jumping Seconds” in 2014 was certainly a gamble. Even if most interested parties where already well seasoned watch collectors, back in 2014 very few understood a complication that seemed to mimic a quartz movement (even if it predates quartz by decades),despite being present in...

Feb

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