Amelia Earhart would be the first woman aviator to fly solo over the Atlantic. The explorer Paul-Emile Victor organized polar expeditions. The pioneering aviator Elinor Smith was a test and endurance pilot […]
Aviation Adventures from Longines
A Moment in Time: Air Time
This is a clock that lives on air. It is a simple mechanism invented by the engineer Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928 and brought out by the Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre in the 1930s. […]
The Mesmerizing Minerals of Jaquet Droz
Minerals are among the treasures of the Earth and the house of Jaquet Droz has a way of bringing them to exuberant life. The house of Swiss watchmaking has perfected the highly […]
Zenith: Reaching for Stars in the Sky
The Defy Midnight Timepiece from the House of Zenith Photo Courtesy Zenith The Swiss watchmaking house of Zenith is placing women’s watches in the forefront and with its elegant new Defy Midnight […]
Lovely in Lilac
The house of Glashütte Original has brought out a lovely limited edition ladies watch showcasing lilac. The house’s new PanoMatic Luna features diamond set rod indexes and lilac Arabic numerals forming a […]
Another Zenith for Zenith
To dare, to challenge, to throw down the gauntlet, to boldly go beyond, that is what it means to defy and the Defy Inventor from the house of Zenith does just that. […]
A Bauhaus Birthday
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the inception of the Bauhaus, the German art school that was operational from 1919 to 1933, the German watch maker Junghans has brought out its Junghans […]
Watch Matters: Mother-of-Pearl
Mollusks produce one of the most beautiful of materials: mother-of-pearl, also called nacre which is both an organic and inorganic material. In jewelry and watch making it is the thin nacre coating […]
Travel Time: Muted Elegance and Style
Watchmaker Richard Mille has once again fulfilled its philosophy of taking functionality and performance to new limits and this in a very limited edition timepiece for travelers. Richard Mille has effectively launched […]
Clyde Barrow’s Bulova Watch Auctioned Off in Boston
The Bulova wristwatch that Clyde Barrow, one of the most infamous and celebrated outlaws in history, was wearing at the time of his death was auctioned on September 21st in Boston, Massachusetts […]
