Category: LAINE
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Owner Review: Torsti Laine – Laine V38 Black Guilloche
The Laine V38. In 2021 I visited Torsti Laine in Le Locle (Switzerland) for the first time and wrote a longer text about it for Quill and Pad in spring 2022 (“Visiting Torsti Laine”). Torsti Laine was born in Finland and lives and works in the center of watchmaking in Switzerland. He is a graduate…
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Owner Review: Laine Guilloche – The Swiss Chameleon
When tilted to light, the green moire guilloche dial of my first independent watch acquires a beautiful bluish hue, much like a chameleon or perhaps like its Finnish maker, Torsti Laine, a former computer engineer, who altered the hue of his own life after attending the Finnish School of Watchmaking and moving his family to…
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Owner Review: Laine Gelidus 2 – An Entry To Independent Watchmaking
Sometimes watches just appear. In 20+ years of collecting it’s often the unplanned purchases that bring the most satisfaction. Usually, this is not completely blind, by that I mean the watch or brand would have already been familiar to me. Rather, these are purchases where I wasn’t actively chasing the watch or even considering it…
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Comments
That dial is just fntastic.
Very cool watch. I have always wondered about the bronze models. Is the caseback bronze as well? If so do…