A contender for "Best in Show" - Ressence

Benoit Mintiens

Hanging out with fellow-blogger Magnus, we made our way to
the Ressence booth and had the opportunity to speak a bit with
Benoit Mintiens.  If you have not had a chance yet,
RUN, don't walk to the nearest retail location you can find!
This is a truly amazing watch!

Magnus with Ressence

How do I know this is the next big thing?  In the span of our brief visit (about 15 minutes) there were at least three distributor/retail people leaning over to get a view!  This is going to be something special!

Junghans, Max Bill and the Bauhaus

Over the past few weeks I've been catching up on some reading. About a year ago I received a biography on Charles-Édouard Jeanneret - also known professionally as Le Corbusier. What was interesting to learn was that his father made watch cases for, among others, Longines.

I then moved onto a relatively new book on some of the founding members of the Bauhaus and there was Max Bill who later went on to lead a group of Swiss artists that came to be known as the Allianz.

Of course I am also thinking about the Max Bill watch that Wendy gave me for Christmas in 2002.

This is the more "classic" size, hand wound (and would you really want it any other way?) and perhaps one of my all time favorite designs.