Bhanu Chopra

1 month ago | wornandwound.com | Bhanu Chopra

In 2019, the last year of Baselworld, I remember roaming the hall of AHCI and visiting Stefan and Ev Kudoke to see their new Kudoke 1 and Kudoke 2 models. The Kudoke 2 was an instant winner for me with the small hand engraved 24-hour day/night disc. Later that year, the Kudoke 2 won the “Petite Aiguille” GPHG award for the best watch under CHF 10,000. This put Kudoke as a brand on every collector’s radar.

2 months ago | watchuseek.com | Bhanu Chopra

#1 · Just bought this Special Edition Nomos Club Campus made specially for a India based Watch Collectors community called J9 Collectors. The watch has a stark white dial and minute markers in Devanagari script which is a very subtle touch. The seconds sub-dial also has the numbers in Devanagari with orange seconds hand. The see-through caseback has the club name engraved and the individual numbers on each watch. I got 2 of 25 pieces made.

2 months ago | wornandwound.com | Bhanu Chopra

In the Fall of 2023, I organized a RedBar event in Prague for Marco Lang, Stefan Kudoke, and Jochen Benzinger. During the event I met two young guys who looked in their early twenties, enjoying fresh Pilsner beer. When we raised our glasses to cheer, I noticed his wrist and had a hard time believing what I saw. The young man introduced himself as Thibault Claeys and said this is their first watch. The other young man introduced himself as Johannes Kallinich.

Mar 24, 2025 | forbes.com | Bhanu Chopra

Joseph Bulova was born in the Czech Republic and immigrated to New York City in 1870. In 1875, at the age of 23, he established a small shop named J. Bulova Company in Lower Manhattan, now known as the Financial District. He initially operated as a wholesale jeweler and manufacturing small table clocks and high-quality pocket watches.

Mar 10, 2025 | wornandwound.com | Bhanu Chopra

I recently visited the Aristo Vollmer watch and bracelet manufacturer in the Black Forest town of Pforzheim. Aristo-Vollmer was founded 14 years ago as a merger of two well-known companies from the towns of Birkenfeld and Pforzheim. After three generations in the possession of the founding Epple family, the watch manufacturer Aristo Watch was sold in 1998 to Hansjörg Vollmer, a member of the founding family of watch bracelet manufacturer Vollmer, which has been associated with Aristo since 1927.