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Jan 14, 2025 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
2025 is MB&F’s 20th Anniversary and their celebrations kick off with two 20-piece Limited Edition “Longhorns” in stainless steel with rhodium-plated base plates, glossy black lacquer dials, and blued hands.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
In the 8 years since Peter Speake parted with the Speake-Marin brand in 2017, he has been collaborating with other brands and watchmakers. Now he is back with a new brand PS Horology and two new models: the Tsuba Blue and Tsuba Dong Son. The sophisticated curved square Tsuba case takes its inspiration from traditional Japanese tsubas, which were intricately-crafted interchangeable hand guards for swords.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
Charles Tain is the founder of WatchCharts.com, which has kindly allowed us to share their monthly, and here also yearly, Market Updates. ————————————————Welcome to our last watch market update of 2024. After a slight uptick and some mixed signals in September and October, the secondary market decline continued in November and so far in December.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
With it’s open dial and sweeping skeletonized bridges, Andreas Strehler’s Papillon d’or is both a horological and visual masterpiece. Now with his new Faune et Flore collection, Strehler takes the Papillon d’or to an even high artistic level with intricate engraving by master engraver Roman Houdek. Engraving, incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin has existed before us. Already our ancestors, i.e. the ancestors of homo sapiens have known it.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
Simon Brette unveils the “Rose Gold” edition of his GPHG-winning Chronomètre Artisans timepiece: it’s a sensational harmony of the warm rose/red gold case and intense-black ‘dragon scale’ dial. The “Rose Gold” edition, a timepiece full of contrastsFor this edition, Simon Brette presents a piece that combines the art of watchmaking with exceptional materials in a fascinating balance between light and darkness.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
Everyone loves a comeback. Except Lance Armstrong. And Mike Tyson. And probably Michael Schumacher, too. Ok… comebacks don’t always work out. Not only does a returning competitor need to rise to the level of fresh rivals, but the rose-tinged memory of one’s past glory is an ever-present challenge for an old name playing a new game. The 2023 Daniel Roth Tourbillon Souscription is a comeback candidate from a brand name with an illustrious past.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
The Urwerk UR-230 is an imposing watch, it’s no under-the-cuff wallflower, it’s a watch that will get noticed. But the new fiberglass-infused white ceramic UR-230 Polaris, lightens the mood. This is a Miami watch! It puts a smile on your face. Radiant and iridescent, the second installment in the 230 series inaugurates a color and a material that both depart from Urwerk’s historical language.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
The MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO collection usually consists of more sporty/casual white case metals like titanium or zirconium, so a red gold case is a bit of an outlier. However, red gold case and bright blue dial and strap are a color combination made in heaven and make this a stunning limited edition. And it’s worth highlighting that the Legacy Machine Perpetual EVO won the Best Calendar Watch prize at the 2021 GPHG.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
Notice from Serge Michel and Claude Greisler who took over the Armin Strom brand in 2006. ———————————–Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 6 December 2024: With great sadness, the independent Swiss watch manufacture Armin Strom announces the death of its founder, Mr. Armin Strom. A resident of Burgdorf, Switzerland, Mr. Strom passed away at the age of 86. The watch manufacture expresses its deepest condolences to the family. Mr. Strom founded his eponymous watch company in 1967 in Burgdorf.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
quillandpad.com | Ian Skellern
The Armin Strom Tribute 2 Copper Edition features a mainplate with a distinctive grattage design in an elegant copper hue. It’s a limited edition of just 10 pieces. Artistic grattage mainplate in the Tribute 2 Copper EditionThe eye-catching copper-coloured mainplate in the Tribute2 – Copper Edition showcases a distinctive processing technique known as grattage. The process was originally developed by mechanical engineers to create perfectly flat surfaces.
