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'Marie Antoinette's Watch' By John Biggs: Book Review And Interview
Just recently, a book about an important historical pocket watch was released by John Biggs.?Now, (cue Troy McLure voiceover) you may know Biggs from the HourTime Show podcast or his writing at TechCrunch and WristWatchReview. What you may not know is that he is also an author of books. While his previous release, Mytro, was a fictional outing; his most recent, Marie Antoinette’s Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual Motion, is an exploration of many histories.On the surface, you’d expect that the book is a history of the Marie Antoinette pocket watch, and it certainly is. It is also an exploration of Abraham-Louis Breguet, who created the watch. At the same time, it is a history of the watch industry, a history of France around the time of the revolution, and a history of the biggest theft to occur in the world of horology. So, no matter what your own particular interest is in history, there is some facet of it here that should grab your attention, provided you are sta
De Bethune DB28 GS Grand Bleu Watch Hands-On
With the De Bethune DB28 GS Grand Bleu, the brand presented what it called “its first 100% sports watch.” First things first, that’s cute. De Bethune has earned its reputation as an horological sculptor of sorts - often quite literally sculpting watches out of meteorite, for example. With swiveling case sections, arched and skeletonized lug structures, spaceship-like movements and so on, this small, yet notable independent has been among those few who ventured beyond the cliche of “watchmaking art” and turned it into a work that actually resembles art. With all that said, let us see how well art and sports go together.I will not dwell on the artistic aspect much longer - mostly because the “watches are like art” cliche is so terribly bad and so awfully over-used in horological discussions that in those few instances like this one where it could possibly be applicable, it’s a moot point already. Anyhow… A new caliber, water resistanc