Tag: german watches

  • Germanys (not so) hidden champions, issue 5: CIRCULA Watches

    Germanys (not so) hidden champions, issue 5: CIRCULA Watches

    Contents:  This is the fifth edition of a small series of podcasts about the (not so) hidden watch champions of Germany. This is also a kind of cooperation between Fifth Wrist and WatchMaxe. Today Claus (@tapir_ffm) from Fifth Wrist and Axel (@WatchMaxe on Youtube) are talking to Cornelius Huber, CEO of CIRCULA Watches.  Cornelius talks…

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  • Editorial: A visit to Hentschel Hamburg

    Editorial: A visit to Hentschel Hamburg

    HOROLOGY IN HAMBURG  A marine chronometer is very different from a chronograph. Some watch collectors do genuinely get mixed up and don’t realise that a chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship to help determine the ship’s position by celestial navigation. The chronometer is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich…

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