search tools

How East Germany’s Watchmaking Capital Is Beating Switzerland

Edit Bloomberg 26 Apr 2016
By the turn of the century, Glashuette counted as many as 20 companies that manufactured watches, marine chronometers and grandfather clocks ... After World War II, the town’s half-dozen remaining watch companies were expropriated by East Germany’s communist government and merged into a state-owned “kombinat,” which continued to manufacture mechanical watches, marine chronometers and, from the 1980s, inexpensive quartz watches. ....

This is what a $280,000 watch looks like

Edit Quartz 20 Mar 2016
On Quartz’s first day at the fair, perhaps none of these marquis mega-watches blew our minds quite like the Ulysse Nardin Grand Deck Marine Tourbillon ... (Ulysse Nardin launched in 1846 and made its name manufacturing marine chronometers ... at sea.) One of 18 Grand Deck Marine Tourbillons.(Courtesy/Ulysse Nardin.)....

Ulysse Nardin Opens Boutique in Miami Design District

Edit Forbes 14 Dec 2015
he 1,000-square-foot store contains the entire scope of Ulysse Nardin’s collection, including its signature Marine Chronometers, the iconic FreakLab, and other high watches ... ....

New British passport, praised for security, isn’t immune to claims of sexism

Edit The Times of India 04 Nov 2015
LONDON ... Activists and female politicians, however, say that the new travel document is a step backward because it features seven men but only two women ... It is an "opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women," she said ... The six others on the passport are Shakespeare; the painter John Constable; John Harrison, who invented the marine chronometer; the architect Giles Gilbert Scott; and the sculptors Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor ... ....

The UK's new passport celebrates creativity but only features 2 women

Edit Mashable 03 Nov 2015
Seven men are represented over just two women. See also ... William Shakespeare, painter John Constable, inventor Charles Babbage, architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, John Harrison, creator of the marine timekepeer, and modern day architects and artists Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley are the men featured ... #weexist ... UK passport ... Carpenter, clockmaker and creator of the marine chronometer John Harrison and the Royal Observatory in Greenwich ... ....

World’s oldest clock collection finds a new home at the Science Museum (Science Museum)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Oct 2015
The new gallery will allow the Science Museum's three million plus visitors a year to enjoy one of the best horological collections in Britain - from the first mechanical clocks and marine chronometers used at sea to the traditional wrist watch ... The Collection contains more than 600 English and European watches, 80 clocks and 25 marine timekeepers, together with a number of rare horological portraits....

Chopard Launches La Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud Brand With Imposing FB 1 Timepiece

Edit Forbes 25 Sep 2015
Chopard resurrects the name of historical horologist Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807), a Swiss maker of marine chronometers, as the patron of a new, ultra-luxurious micro brand with limited production.... ....

Ulysse Nardin Unveils Limited Edition Artemis Racing Marine Diver

Edit Forbes 28 Aug 2015
In the 19th Century, Ulysse Nardin manufactured highly accurate marine chronometers for ships throughout the world. Patrik Hoffmann, Ulysse Nardin CEO, says this nautical heritage makes the partnership with Artemis Racing “a perfect match.”... ....

What Is a Chronometer? A Guide to These Top-Notch Watches

Edit Bloomberg 19 Aug 2015
The name was later used a few decades later to describe marine chronometers—clocks suspended in gyroscopic boxes that helped ships determine longitude and traverse the world's oceans ... Just as marine chronometers pushed exploration by ship, accurate pocket watches made it possible to standardize time across the U.S. railroad system ... The Globemaster is the first watch to bear a new certification, Master Chronometer....

The One Thing Entrepreneurial People Never Do

Edit Huffington Post 12 Aug 2015
At the time mariners needed a device for solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea ... Motivated by this incentive and highly skilled as a clock maker, Harrison set to work, and invented the marine chronometer ... The �20,000 prize was never awarded, even though Harrison's fifth chronometer, known as H5, far exceeded the Parliament's requirement....

Rare navigation artifacts seen at China Maritime Museum (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jul 2015
(Source. Shanghai Municipal Government). China Maritime Museum in Shanghai is cooperating with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London and the Maritime Museum Rotterdam in the Netherlands to hold an exhibition with two parts ... The most valuable exhibit is a marine chronometer made by the legendary clockmaker, John Harrison ... distributed by....

Ashes 2005, England v Australia: The day Edgbaston came alive with hope and glory

Edit The Daily Telegraph 03 Jul 2015
Ashes fever ... AP. By Rob Bagchi ... But as each car stuck at the lights simultaneously heard the radio bulletin informing us that Glenn McGrath had stepped on a ball and had been ruled out of the game, the line of traffic gently began to bounce in the manner of Trotters Independent Traders’ Reliant Regal Supervan a few minutes after Del-Boy and Rodney learnt that their Harrison marine chronometer had been bought for £6.2 million ... ....

Precious Time: The Challenge of Building a Better Atomic Clock

Edit Yahoo Daily News 29 Jun 2015
Ivy Kupec is a media officer at the U.S. National Science Foundation. She contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices. Op-Ed & Insights. Prior to the mid-18th century, it was tough to be a sailor — you couldn't set out for a specific destination and have any real hope of finding it quickly if the trip required east-west travel ... As a result, he won the Longitude Prize for building the first compact marine chronometer....
×
×
×
×