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16 Special Watches and a White Rabbit from the Museum
Thomas Brechtel, Watchesandwords, 2026 The White Rabbits is Everywhere, Inside and Out I am the one among us two authors who came to the museum mainly for the historical pocket watches, or to be more precise, for one watch in particular: the ‘Universelle’, Universal Clock, Universaluhr. But more on that heavy gold masterpiece later. What
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Audemars Piguet – The Museum: „I would like to work here.“
One of my experiences in the watch community is that many watch enthusiasts share my affinity for art and architecture. Not that I’m particularly knowledgeable about it, but I love strolling through museums and enjoying the artworks and often the architecture as well. Well, you’ll find what you’re looking for in this respect at the
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KERIS – Knowing Each Right Idea Sparkling
Text and all photos by Thomas, watchesandwords (Instagram), October 2025 „In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap! The job´s a game.“ (Mary Poppins, philosopher) In my opinion, there are too many wristwatches anyway, with many new models and entire brands being added every
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A manufacture visit to the Dutch watchmaker Annelinde Dunselman: „It was fascination, I know.“ (Nat King Cole)
Text and all Photos by Thomas, watchesandwords (Instagram), September 2025 First encounter in Geneva 2025 The Black Tulip wristwatch by the Dutch watchmaker Annelinde Dunselman is a very special watch for me. Annelinde has introduced her timepiece at the Watches and Wonders 2025 in Geneva and it was one of my personal highlights from
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The «Gemba Walk»: a manufacture visit to the crazy*) Watch(wonder)land at Franck Muller
*) other meanings of «crazy», according to Merriam-Webster: dreamlike, unbelievable, eccentric, Alice-in-Wonderland
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A visit to the museum of Longines in Saint-Imier
Last year I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Longines. It is actually free of charge, but can only be visited as a part of a guided tour, hence you have to book it via the website. Although I strongly recommend that you do this whenever you are in Switzerland for watches you
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Editorial: … and another timeline about watch companies
While reading a book about various watchmaking companies it appeared to me that, yes it was ages ago, that Audemars Piguet made this and also ages ago that Patek Philippe made that … but that made me wonder, what does «ages ago» even mean? Would placing these key events on a timeline illustrate this with
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A visit to the atelier of «watch mastermind» Dr. Ludwig Oechslin (Interview)
This year (2024) in August the Fifth Wrist delegate Claus (@tapir_ffm), accompanied our friend of the show Paul (@myhorologicaljourney), used his trip to Switzerland to the Geneva Watch Days also to visit Ludwig Oechslin in his private atelier. This article does not attempt to summarise or even comprehensively describe all that he has already achieved
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Interview – Meet Japanese Watchmaker, Daisuke Oguri, by @escapementism
Fifth Wrist has always had a strong interest in the independent watchmaking scene, and we are always looking to highlight emerging watchmaking talent, whether it be through podcast shows such as Independent Thinking, Rob and the Regulator or our German channel, Ohne Hemmung. I’d like to use this space to introduce Daisuke Oguri, a self-taught
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The «Gemba Walk»: a manufacture visit to the watchmaking workshop of Zeitwinkel
Wikipedia: In business, «Gemba» refers to the place where value is created Here: A visit to a «real» watch manufacture (in the true sense off the word) {more pictures (about 30) than text (reading time: approx. 6 minutes); alternatively/in addition (only in German, though) you can watch the YouTube video here (Zeitwinkel starting at 01:09:30) or listen
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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…