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Nov 2, 2018, 04:04 PM
#431
Originally Posted by
mlcor
Given the times in which he lived, possibly.
Quite: What was considered outrageous in the late 18th century would hardly raise an eyebrow these days.
Some people have opinions - The rest of us have taste.
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Nov 2, 2018, 04:09 PM
#432
Originally Posted by
is that my watch
was he thou ? or was a line said by beethoven taken out of context ? ... when beethoven was talking of his Requiem something like too wild and terrible was't it ?
they are saying now most of it was made up his wild boy image ??
years after his death ?
Don’t burst my fantasy balloon.
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Nov 2, 2018, 05:29 PM
#433
It may be the influence of Hogarth, but I think of the eighteenth century as a period of scarcely-concealed decadence.
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Nov 2, 2018, 05:45 PM
#434
Originally Posted by
tribe125
It may be the influence of Hogarth, but I think of the eighteenth century as a period of scarcely-concealed decadence.
the modern moral subjects
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Nov 8, 2018, 09:44 PM
#435
- Rolex has been the main sponsor of the Wimbledon tennis tournament for forty years. There are only two permanent suites at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club: one is for the royal family and the other is for Rolex. The two suites are connected, but mainly so that they can share a kitchen. And what a stroke of luck that eight-time winner Roger Federer is Swiss, and that Wimbledon is green.
- The IWC Portuguese was made for the Portuguese and the first examples were dispatched to a wholesaler in... Odessa, in the Ukraine. Portugal didn’t get a Portuguese for another three years. It was a Lisbon wholesaler that had suggested a wristwatch with the accuracy of a pocket chronometer, in a style that was more Bauhaus than Art Deco. Portugal didn’t like Art Deco. The first shipment to reach Portugal went to a different wholesaler.
- Famously, Audemars Piguet wanted the Royal Oak to be an ‘unprecedented steel watch’, but they were unable to work with steel. The prototypes were made of white gold.
- In 2018, and alarmed by the rise of neo-fascist groups in Germany, Nomos went on national radio to express its vehement disapproval. Nomos runs workplace programmes that guard against the influence of the radical right wing.
- Ferdinand Adolph Lange was responsible for the German ‘three-quarter plate’ movement, which is said to be more robust than its Swiss equivalent. Some say that the three-quarter plate had its origins in England. Lange had spent time with English watchmakers, and acknowledged the contribution of English watchmaking in his journal.
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Nov 15, 2018, 09:48 PM
#436
- Anybody with a knowledge of British industrial decline will be surprised to learn that parts for Rolex watches are made in Middlesbrough. Well, according to a journalist in Middlesbrough. There might be something in it, though. The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) is a not-for-profit research centre with a specialist smelting business. MPI is fiendishly clever with metal, and watch companies can’t do everything.
- For more than a hundred years, the Belville family sold people the time. John Belville was an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and he was the owner of a pocket watch chronometer made by John Arnold. Starting his service in 1836, John Belville sent his watch out to clients, rather than having them knock on the Observatory’s door asking for the time. His wife continued the business after his death, and it passed to their daughter Ruth in 1892. Ruth Belville, who came to be known as The Greenwich Time Lady, kept the service going until 1940, when she retired aged 86. She still had fifty customers despite the introduction of the radio ‘pips’ in 1924, and the telephone ‘speaking clock’ in 1936. As it happens, Ethel Cain, the voice of the speaking clock, lived just round the corner from Ruth Belville on the outskirts of Croydon. Many of Ruth Belville’s customers were clockmakers and The Clockmakers’ Company granted her a pension for the final years of her life. The Bellville’s Arnold chronometer is in The Clockmaker’s Museum, now located in London’s Science Museum.
- Nazi-hating Norwegians founded Timex. On the day that Germany invaded Norway, Thomas Olsen and his family boarded a British destroyer and sailed to the Orkney Islands, travelling on to America. Olsen was a wealthy man, thanks to his family’s shipping empire, and together with Joakim Lehmkuhl, another Norwegian refugee, he bought the Waterbury Clock Company, which was close to bankruptcy. Waterbury would now aid the war effort by producing clockwork bomb and artillery fuses. With the war won, Waterbury went back to making watches, but under a new name. And the odd thing is... that the new name was formed from a magazine title and packs of paper tissues. Thomas Olsen liked Time magazine and Kleenex. Olsen went back to Norway, Joakim Lehmkuhl stayed on to run the company. Timex is still owned by Fred Olsen, the company founded by Thomas Olsen’s grandfather.
- The Tag in Tag Heuer stands for Syrian arms dealer. Or businessman, as Akram Ojjeh preferred to be called. Brokering sales of French jet fighters (and plenty more besides) built up a sizeable pot for investing in... everything. The faltering watch company went from strength to strength, and once in a while it makes a Carrera without Tag on the dial. All is fair in love and watch company survival.
- When Richemont bought Watchfinder it became one of the world’s biggest Rolex dealers. Second-hand Rolexes, but still.
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Nov 16, 2018, 12:21 AM
#437
Originally Posted by
tribe125
- Anybody with a knowledge of British industrial decline will be surprised to learn that parts for Rolex watches are made in Middlesbrough. Well, according to a journalist in Middlesbrough. There might be something in it, though. The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) is a not-for-profit research centre with a specialist smelting business. MPI is fiendishly clever with metal, and watch companies can’t do everything.
- For more than a hundred years, the Belville family sold people the time. John Belville was an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and he was the owner of a pocket watch chronometer made by John Arnold. Starting his service in 1836, John Belville sent his watch out to clients, rather than having them knock on the Observatory’s door asking for the time. His wife continued the business after his death, and it passed to their daughter Ruth in 1892. Ruth Belville, who came to be known as The Greenwich Time Lady, kept the service going until 1940, when she retired aged 86. She still had fifty customers despite the introduction of the radio ‘pips’ in 1924, and the telephone ‘speaking clock’ in 1936. As it happens, Ethel Cain, the voice of the speaking clock, lived just round the corner from Ruth Belville on the outskirts of Croydon. Many of Ruth Belville’s customers were clockmakers and The Clockmakers’ Company granted her a pension for the final years of her life. The Bellville’s Arnold chronometer is in The Clockmaker’s Museum, now located in London’s Science Museum.
- Nazi-hating Norwegians founded Timex. On the day that Germany invaded Norway, Thomas Olsen and his family boarded a British destroyer and sailed to the Orkney Islands, travelling on to America. Olsen was a wealthy man, thanks to his family’s shipping empire, and together with Joakim Lehmkuhl, another Norwegian refugee, he bought the Waterbury Clock Company, which was close to bankruptcy. Waterbury would now aid the war effort by producing clockwork bomb and artillery fuses. With the war won, Waterbury went back to making watches, but under a new name. And the odd thing is... that the new name was formed from a magazine title and packs of paper tissues. Thomas Olsen liked Time magazine and Kleenex. Olsen went back to Norway, Joakim Lehmkuhl stayed on to run the company. Timex is still owned by Fred Olsen, the company founded by Thomas Olsen’s grandfather.
- The Tag in Tag Heuer stands for Syrian arms dealer. Or businessman, as Akram Ojjeh preferred to be called. Brokering sales of French jet fighters (and plenty more besides) built up a sizeable pot for investing in... everything. The faltering watch company went from strength to strength, and once in a while it makes a Carrera without Tag on the dial. All is fair in love and watch company survival.
- When Richemont bought Watchfinder it became one of the world’s biggest Rolex dealers. Second-hand Rolexes, but still.
The TAG thing? I thought it was Techniques Avant Garde.
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Nov 16, 2018, 12:26 AM
#438
Originally Posted by
Dimman
The TAG thing? I thought it was Techniques Avant Garde.
Well, yes - I’m being impish.
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Nov 16, 2018, 01:16 AM
#439
Originally Posted by
tribe125
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- Nazi-hating Norwegians founded Timex. On the day that Germany invaded Norway, Thomas Olsen and his family boarded a British destroyer and sailed to the Orkney Islands, travelling on to America. Olsen was a wealthy man, thanks to his family’s shipping empire, and together with Joakim Lehmkuhl, another Norwegian refugee, he bought the Waterbury Clock Company, which was close to bankruptcy. Waterbury would now aid the war effort by producing clockwork bomb and artillery fuses. With the war won, Waterbury went back to making watches, but under a new name. And the odd thing is... that the new name was formed from a magazine title and packs of paper tissues. Thomas Olsen liked Time magazine and Kleenex. Olsen went back to Norway, Joakim Lehmkuhl stayed on to run the company. Timex is still owned by Fred Olsen, the company founded by Thomas Olsen’s grandfather. ...
Now I like Timex even more.
Too many watches, not enough wrists.
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Nov 22, 2018, 10:58 PM
#440
- Ulysse Nardin made 96% of the marine chronometers certified at the Neuchâtel Observatory between 1846 and 1975, and is said to have supplied the navies of fifty countries. Newer technologies made marine chronometers redundant, and by 1983 Ulysse Nardin had two employees - one watchmaker and one salesman.
- As well as making movements, Sellita assembles complete watches for ‘group affiliated’ brands. One such brand has its own dedicated department in the factory. A visiting journalist described the scene as ‘unsettling’ but was otherwise discreet. So let’s see - group affiliated brands with Sellita inside... Baume et Mercier, Hublot, IWC, Montblanc, Tag Heuer...
- Omega once classed the Speedmaster as a Seamaster and put a seahorse logo on the back. It’s true. In 1959.
- Hardly anybody makes their own hands. Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Rolex and Vacheron Constantin are just a few of the companies that have theirs made by Fiedler SA.
- Tudor does more assembling than making. Cases, hands and dials come from third-party suppliers, as do many movements. At peak periods, workers may be drafted in from Rolex, and the assembly of in-house movements may be outsourced to external workshops. Tudor doesn’t keep any stock, making everything to order.
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