For the last few years Blancpain has been one of the more curious high-end Swiss watch brands from one of the major groups. It was Mr. Jean-Claude Biver who built the brand up to what it is, and since selling it to the Swatch Group it has moved around a bit in terms of who is running it.
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Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Contemporain “Royal Blue” Watch Hands-On
Call this GF watch “ol’ blue eye” like I did and you are sure to gain points with the brand. They call it “magic.” We can both refer to it as Royal Blue – and beautiful. While not the most technically complex new Greubel Forsey watch of 2012, this one is probably the prettiest. It [...]
Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Watch For 2010
In platinum, the watch case and dial of this Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes (yes, spelled like that) watch feel as though they were milled from a solid piece of the precious metal. There is so much platinum in this watch – it boggles the mind. Actually, the the dial, markers, and hands are in [...]
Gronefeld One Hertz 1912 Dead-Beat Seconds Watch
Tick tick tick… makes you think of a quartz watch right? WRONG! Well, at least in this case. This fancy little Dutchman is a dead-beat watch. No that the type of dead-beat that won’t pay child support, but rather a mechanical watch with a ticking seconds hand. The hell you say!? Yes, it is true, [...]
