Sneak Peek: Geneva Time Exhibition
The first edition of the Geneva Time Exhibition ran from January 17-22, welcoming over 5500 guests including about 500 journalists. The show included 29 independent watch brands showing their newest models. Here are a few images from the event…Guests meet with exhibitors and admire the timepieces (and other items) on display Here is a very small sampling of the watches on display…Antoine PreziusoA DeMonaco TourbillonClaude MeylanLadoireLouis MoinetLook for Mark Bernardo’s GTE report, coming soon to .

Memoirs Of A Watchmaker: Coming Of Age With Horology
I came of age in the 1960's and 1970's in New England. If you asked most of my schoolmates back then what they wanted to be when they grew up, most would have said a fireman, policeman, cowboy, politician, lawyer, doctor, teacher, sailor��. just about anything but a watchmaker. The average age of watchmakers in the 1960's and 1970's was around 50 years old, and it seemed, at least in the United States, to be a dying breed, perhaps even an endangered species. Americans didn't value watchmakers as highly skilled technicians, as they did in Switzerland and other European communities, they more or less saw them as the equivalent of a plumber, electrician, house painter or refrigerator repair man. Not something to strive for when you're young ��didn't seem glamorous like a secret agent, lawyer, or computer punch card operator��. or something to get girls with like the lead singer of a rock band.So when my Dad decided when I was 12, to take me to his retail jewelry store on Saturdays to teach m

Blancier Grand Cru Watch With Nespresso Capsule Dial
Eat your heart out Omega, there is a new George Clooney watch out there! Clooney might be a face for Omega timepieces, but Europeans are more likely to associate his visage with quick espressos as the man is always drinking Nespresso in their advertising. Watch maker Blancier has a new collection of watches called the Grand Cru which have dials made of used Nespresso capsules. Yea, that is about as appealing as it sounds.While most people in the United States love their coffee, Europe is all about the espresso shot - and everyone loves their Nespresso machine. It uses colorful aluminum capsules (different colors are different types of ground coffee beans or flavors) for each shot of liquid energy. Once they are used, the capsules needs to be thrown away - even though you can technically recycle them. That wasn't enough for Blancier though, they wanted to "upcycle them."Upcycling is a newer term for me, and I think some marketing douchebag probably invented it. It refers to when you mak

Super-Cool looking Seamaster which I have no idea???
What are your various opinions on this watch???4841829_xxl.jpgRef: REF. 166.0324Movement: 565-1I think it is a Luminova dial/hands and the case is factory fresh, so it is basically a new watch from old stock.

Absolutely Gorgeous
Simplicity is blissful...