As I sit here in my office in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, just far enough south of this country’s current crisis to be able to almost concentrate on the daily tasks at hand. But within this environment it is hard to keep ones mind from wandering and then with a...
BaselWorld wrapped up another show this past March 17, 2018 to rather disappointing numbers, falling from the heels of last years drop. Numbers released by BaselWorld itself confirm that in the past 2 years 850 exhibitors have dropped out of the show, a drop...
Counterfeit luxury items have been around for virtually as long as the authentic item itself, fine Swiss watches included. It is estimated that 40 million counterfeit watches a year are sold with a net profit of 1 billion dollars. That’s real money the last time I sat...
Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 degrees celsius (1380 and 1560 degrees fahrenheit). The powder melts, flows, then hardens to a smooth durable,...
Mechanical watches at least in my assumption are one of the wonders of the world, considering when they were first conceived, and how little, the very basics of their time telling prowess have changed right up to this day. As time moved through history, or history...
There was a time when my very own mind, more than once, I might add, uttered that very thought. It was like the proverbial devil sitting on my shoulder trying his best to discredit the horological supremacy so obvious to those with the eyes to see. A dark time to say...
The name Montblanc has been synonymous with the culture of writing for more than a 100 years. It is hard to know, if in 1906, when Hamburg banker, Alfred Nehemias and Berlin engineer August Eberstein, started producing simplicissimus pens, that one day their company...
You went to school, you got a job and you have done well for yourself in a short time, much shorter than you ever imagined. And with that has come a day of reward, a day to lay down a mark in life, much like your mom marking your height on the kitchen doorframe,...
