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Archive for 2013

76 posts in this year

GTE – Luxury underground, Part 2

Posted by Eszter on 3rd February 2013 in Fine Watchmaking
Tags: GTE 2013, Heritage, Picard Cadet, Quinting

Picard Cadet Switzerland has been the cradle of watch making for centuries. The fascinating surroundings of Jura Mountains and Alps have given home for the masterminds and the precise hands of horology. Company conglomerates and small manufactures...

Wound up for 5 days

Posted by Eszter on 3rd February 2013 in Events
Tags: Bovet, Geneva, GTE, GTE 2013, SIHH, SIHH 2013

The tick-tock week is over in Geneva. It feels a bit like after a Prince concert at the Sziget Festival – the sounds are lost in your head for days not finding their way out. But both the tick-tocks and the nice tunes are precious melodies to...

Best things deserve waiting

Posted by Eszter on 21st January 2013 in Fine Watchmaking
Tags: Bexei, Budapest, fine watchmaking

They say, how you start your year can have an impact on its entirety, so it’s worth spending the first days with something that you would enjoy doing in the coming months too. Although on 2 January the day started off grey and icy, I made my way to...

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“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.”

– Dorothy Parker (US poet and satirist, August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967)

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