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Early 1980s, Japan. Kikuo Ibe continues to smash watches and his colleagues and superiors are quietly starting to worry. Ibe refuses to stop and in 1983 his perseverance is rewarded and his colleagues and superiors are reassured, when the shock-resistant G-Shock hits the market. The vulnerable watch has been rendered invincible by means of triple protection for the components, the movement and the case, becoming first an American and then a global success.
A watch made of 797 components, 575 of which are needed to make the fusée and (18cm) chain transmission of the highly complicated movement. We're talking about a strictly limited and expensive birthday watch. Birthday as in ‘anniversary piece’, not ‘present’.
At first glance you may think “Oh no, not another retro model”, but upon closer inspection of the Oris Divers Sixty-Five the suspicious watch aficionado learns that this is about more than convenient retro just to be fashionable. What Oris has done is translate a vintage model from 1965 into a watch for today, and in such a way that the price remains extremely reasonable.
Here at 0024 we are in the business of time. And right now we really hate time. We want to turn back time because our founding editor Karel Hubert has passed away last Thursday, April 16 at the early age of 65 and we really, really miss him. It was his own choice to stop his time here on earth and we respect that. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to go back in time to be able to listen to his incredible anecdotes, his snappy one-liners or hearing him talk about an obscure artist he discovered recently.
To celebrate the festive season, Jaeger-LeCoultre brings the essence of the Manufacture in the Vallée de Joux to the iconic Fine Watch Room of Harrods in London, from November 28th to January 14th 2015. In a major tribute to striking watches, there will be the opportunity to explore the different facets of this sophisticated complication.
A historic sale of the private collection of HRH Prince Louis II of Monaco, the greatgrandfather of HRH Prince Albert of Monaco, was held in Fontainebleau on 16th November this year. Viviane de Witt, CEO of the DeWitt company, acquired two lots containing strands of the Emperor's hair, with the intention of enclosing them in DeWitt watches so that admirers of the Emperor can carry his DNA on their wrists.
A great little watch movie with a message and looks awesome. The film ‘Better Starts Now’ was made by Dutch commercial maker Johan Kramer, production company 100% Halal and agency Wieden+Kennedy Tokio for Citizen and shows the philosophy of the Japanese brand that it’s always possible to improve. Now is the time to start improving according to Citizen and it tells that message in short movie that was shot at a watchmaker’s workbench and the black and white images were shot with original camera’s from the 30’s and 80’s.
Mr. Raymond Weil, founder and Honorary President of Raymond Weil Genève, passed away peacefully at age 87, on January 26, 2014. In 1976 Raymond Weil had the courage - in the middle of the most
The astronomical watches made by Christiaan van der Klaauw are nothing short of breathtaking. Wearing a mechanical universe on the wrist is really something special. Dutch jewellers Van Hell Juweliers brought watches and stars together at the Bussloo observatory. When people looked up, they saw the stars; when people looked down, they saw stars in watches.