Czapek Place Vendôme Complicité Glacier Blue: Worth Pulling Up a Chair

At Czapek’s new Geneva flagship, a platinum prototype offered a memorable reminder of how much pleasure there is in simply watching a watch work By Brent Robillard Singing the blues TCW writer/photographer, Bob Allaby, and I were walking down the Quai des Bergues from the Beau-Rivage when we stopped at Czapek’s new flagship boutique during Geneva Watch Days. We sat down with Aristo Xanthopoulos, who … Continue reading Czapek Place Vendôme Complicité Glacier Blue: Worth Pulling Up a Chair

HAUTE-RIVE, Stéphane von Gunten, and the Honoris Strato in Steel

by Brent Robillard One thousand hours I first met Stéphane von Gunten in the attic of Villa Sarasin during Time to Watches a couple of years ago. It was warm, slightly chaotic, and full of the kind of independent energy that tends to collect under old wooden beams. I can’t really forget the moment as it’s not every day that someone pulls a mainspring from … Continue reading HAUTE-RIVE, Stéphane von Gunten, and the Honoris Strato in Steel