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A starry sky above Berlin Felipe Pikullik’s story doesn’t begin in a centuries‑old Swiss valley or a famous Le Brassus manufacture; it begins in Berlin in 1994, in a city better known for art, music and concrete than for watchmaking. As a child he was fascinated by mechanical objects and the idea of measuring time,

Second Hour: How a Melbourne Microbrand Turned Modern Tool Watches into Accessible Art When people talk about watchmaking, they still default to Switzerland, Glashütte, maybe Japan if they’re paying attention. Almost nobody pictures Melbourne, a city more famous for coffee and laneways than lathes and balance springs. Yet in 2019, from that same city, a

The Saxon Rebellion: The 36-Year Odyssey of Nomos Glashütte The story of Nomos Glashütte doesn’t begin in a sleek boardroom or a heritage-rich archive; it begins in the eerie, industrial silence of a town that had forgotten how to be itself. In January 1990, just eight weeks after the Berlin Wall was breached, Roland Schwertner

Philippe Dufour: The Quiet Master Who Redefined Independent Watchmaking In a watch world obsessed with novelties, limited editions, and social‑media hype, there is one name that quietly sits above most of the noise: Philippe Dufour. He has no sprawling product catalog, no aggressive marketing team, and no shiny boutique network. In fact, over almost three

From Junk Shop to Japanese Haute Horlogerie: The Story of Masa’s Pastime and Masa & Co The first time you see a Masa & Co watch in the metal—a deep blue‑black Sohkoku dialed in shakudō, or the tranquil Nagi with its quiet glow—it doesn’t look like the product of a junk shop. It looks like

Eugène Kim and the Vertixphere X1: Korea’s First Chapter in Haute Horlogerie When collectors think of high-end independent watchmaking, their minds usually go to the Swiss Jura, to Finnish ateliers in the countryside, or to the futuristic orbits of brands like MB&F and De Bethune. Korea, despite its technological prowess and rich craft traditions, has