It has been a long time since my last post. A new professional challenge with lots of travelling and my family with small kids are my priorities. I was very happy to be able to spend one day at the Baselworld.
Here are some impression in chronologic order - I will post them without further redo and will revisit some brands in more details later on.
Morning: what watch to wear today? Ok, lets take the vintage Helvetia which is never wrong, because the brands doesn't exist anymore. However....wrong date, it shows the 27th. after five minutes....still some work to do...(the two discs move from 31to 32 and so on...)
ok, finally ready to go!
on the highway towards Basel...a nice spring day
arrived. Just before 10 am....
time for a coffee! Ok, off we go...first to the AHCI booth...
Lang and Heyne from Dresden.
Paul Gerber shows a few pieces with Japanese Porcelain dials. Fascinating. More information to follow.
Romain Gauthier.
This one oven more so: L'Epee for MB&F
Frank Jutzi (AHCI)
new movement with 3 days power reserve (prototype decoration)
movement with blackened bridges.
END OF PART 1