Let’s watch how a simple (Bvlgari), a complete (vintage JLC), an annual (MIH Watch), and a perpetual calendar (IWC Da Vinci) make it through ‘The Day’ of a leap year!
Tag Archive for: Perpetual Calendar
´Collector´s View` on an eclectic selection of watches, including the legendary IWC Il Destriero Scafusia Grand Complication, to be sold at the Dorotheum auction, 01 December 2023
´Collector´s View` on an eclectic selection of watches, from dress watches over calendars to icons, to be sold at the Dorotheum auction, 26 May 2023
´Collector´s View` on an eclectic selection of watches, from dress over complications to icons, to be sold at the Antiquorum Geneva auction, 14/15 May 2023
A view on Watches & Wonders 2022 novelties through the imaginary eye of an eclectic GPHG Academician (Iconic, Tourbillon, Calendar and Astronomy, Mechanical Exception)
Some snapshots and brief impressions about the ´Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin` from Vacheron Constantin, a charming piece on the outside and a masterpiece on the inside
For today I have chosen one of the best known (or can we even say common) `Grand Complications` – the perpetual calendar from one of the power houses of Swiss fine watchmaking. Vacheron Constantin is close to my heart, especially for the ´delicacies` they can offer from time to time – even when those are quite often like a hidden secret to the public.
A watch at the apex of an eminent manufacturer, the Patek Philippe 5004A Split-Seconds Perpetual Calendar Chronograph is as eclectic as it is miraculous
Three “Homage to F. A. Lange” novelties featuring special movement decorations and dials dedicated to Ferdinand Adolph Lange. 175 years ago, he opened his first workshop in Glashütte, thus laying the cornerstone for the Saxonian art of watchmaking
Photographer Guy Lucas de Peslouan shares his images and thoughts on the watch which defined ‘steampunk’ and put a now legendary watchmaker forever on the map of collectors