Watches's stories

the churchill's dirty dozen military watches story the british military watches from world war two

Dirty dozen, Churchill's military watches Appointed Minister of Armaments in July 1917, Winston Churchill became aware long before the dark hours of the Second World War of the importance of standardizing the equipment used by the military during battle. During the First World War, the Allied...

tudor submariner... le laboratoire de test en grandeur nature ...

The Rolex submariner has been a great success with watch enthusiasts for many years. A tremendous enthusiasm that has placed it for thirty years at the forefront of the watches among the most desired in the world. A supremacy which, a little-known detail, is largely due to numerous...

omega speedmaster mark 2 la montre suisse qui ne joue pas les rôles de seconds couteau……

rolex daytona cosmograph...

omega seamaster from its origins to today... .. at the service of all professionals

Omega Seamaster… from its origins to today It was in 1946 that the Seamaster model project was initiated, a prototype model whose purpose was to allow Omega to enter the very closed circle at the end of the 1940s of manufacturers who mastered the waterproofing of watch cases. As...

W-10 The Military Queen, The military watch of the British forces ... ... from the end of the Seventies ...

W-10 the queen, The British military watch of the late seventies. At the end of the 1970s, the stock of Commonwealth military watches had far exceeded its potential use. Coming mostly from watches that began their career in the early fifties, see during the Second World War, the...

Rolex Sea Dweller, more than a waterproof watch.. ...a tool at the service of deep-sea divers

It is in Antiquity that the first known underwater works date back: research by snorkelers to recover valuables from wrecks (the initiative of which is attributed to King Xerxes) or the refloating of ships. and the construction of port works by the divers of Alexander the Great equipped...

The new rolex submariner 2020 Prices of pre-owned rolex 40 mm models is already skyrocketing.

Rolex Submariner 2020. The new 41mm rolex models rock the modern submariner 114060 and 116610LN in the collection.   September 2020 marks the arrival of a new range of Rolex Submariners: with the reference 124060, an undated Submariner replacing the 114060, it is a range that gains...

Rolex GMT Master 1 for pilots and world travelers

It was in the 1950s, and at the height of its glory, that the most powerful airline in the world at the time, Pan Am, decided to respond to the emerging competition from other companies on the theme of modernism, technicality and prestige. After changing its name from Pan American...

Rolex Explorer 2 Story... The watch for globe-trotting raiders and adventurers

The history of the Rolex Explorer II begins in the early 1970s, a time when man pushes the limits of exploration: Space, the depths of the ocean, the bowels of the Earth, no exploratory track n t is neglected and above all, economic development obliges, society opens to travel......

breitling navitimer, a chronograph that adds... a navigator co-pilot on the wrist

At the dawn of the 1950s, travel took on a new dimension, many qualified pilots were available following the war and progress made it possible to make planes that went further, faster and higher. With the use of the jet plane, the rise of airlines and the proliferation of travel. In...

omega speedmaster moonwatch story The chronograph watch that walked on the Moon

omega speedmaster, the nasa's apollo mission chronograph Manufactured by Omega in 1957 for racing drivers or motor racing enthusiasts, this chronograph fitted with a tachymeter was one of the two watches selected in 1965 by NASA to accompany astronauts on the Moon. (the other model...