Outrageous Meets Audacious: Yvan Arpa Joins Jacob & Co.
Former Romain Jerome CEO Yvan Arpa has joined New York-based Jacob & Co. as COO. During Arpa’s tenure at Romain Jerome, the brand produced some of the most provocative timepieces of the decade, including one made from pieces of the Titanic, another priced at $300,000 that did not tell the time, and the moon dust-laced “The Truth About Roswell”. Jacob & Co. is best known for large, colorful, jewel-encrusted watches often worn by celebrities and hip-hop stars. Below, RJ’s “The Truth About Roswell” and a classic Jacob & Co. five timezone watch. In 2006, Jacob & Co. ventured into haute horlogerie (courtesy of now-defunct BNB Concept) with the groundbreaking Quenttin watch, which featured a 31 day power reserve and a vertical tourbillon.Jacob & Co. is also known for its colorful namesake founder Jacob Arabo, born Yakov Arabov, better known as Jacob the Jeweler. In June, 2008, Arabo was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined

Switzerland Mourns Its Watch ��Messiah��
Switzerland has responded to the sudden death of Swatch Group Chairman Nicolas G. Hayek on June 28 with a rare outpouring of grief, praise, and appreciation. Hayek, 82, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but grew up in Switzerland and spent his entire professional life there. Hayek has been a prominent public figure in the country for four decades and one of the country's most famous and, ultimately, beloved figures. He founded a consulting company, Hayek Engineering Inc., in Zurich in 1965 and quickly became Switzerland's most important consultant, the Mr. Fixit that both industry and the Swiss government called on to develop strategies to fix seemingly unfixable problems. Mr. Fixit became Mr. Swatch in the 1980s when the Swiss banks called on him to develop a plan to rescue the struggling Swiss watch industry.The watch industry was dominated in those days by two giant groups, ASUAG and SSIH, both of which were hemorrhaging red ink, surviving on bank bailouts. Hayek submitted a detailed reo

Stowa Antea Back to Bauhaus Review
Around this time last year, Stowa released the Antea "back to bauhaus" series. The "b2b" was an offshoot of the classic Antea line, which itself pulls inspiration from a watch Stowa first produced in the 1920s. The b2b was yet another product born of the collaboration between Stowa and famed German designer, Hartmut Esslinger, who also designed the Rana and Stowa's new logo.The b2b series was not without controversy, however. Some longtime Stowa fans were puzzled by the release, questioning Schauer's direction for a brand that had for nearly 20 years produced timepieces based on tried-and-true designs from its historical catalogue. The trepidation online was also likely compounded by the fact that Stowa had recently made other changes that proved to be divisive, with the most obvious example being the aforementioned logo redesign.Others��and I include myself in that group��were intrigued by the release. Few reservations aside, I liked the concept on paper, especially the myriad of color

Snoopy Lume
Started to watch Apollo 13, love the lime.

BLNR Discontinued
I don't have enough posts for link but ablogtowatch says the BLNR is discontinued. If you read their Hands on article for the new Pepsi on jubilee you will see it. Hopefully someone else can post link.Bet it skyrockets in value from here.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk