Category Archives: editorial

Back to blogging!

Followers will have noticed that I have gone silent for the last couple of weeks. Everything is all right. I have just been busy traveling and visiting friends. I am now resuming blogging, and will try to catch up with the pace of one entry per day every 2<3 day. Baselworld is taking place 27 days [...]

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Watchprojects’ most popular topics in 2010

I took a short break from WatchProjects.com these Winter Holidays to visit relatives across Northwestern Europe. Due to unforeseen heavy snow, my journey turned into “Around Western Europe in 80 hours”. Luckily I was able to reach destination sound and safe… with my luggage intact. Winter Solstice is good news for residents of the Northern Hemisphere, as it marks the moment when [...]

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Trintec, Maker of Aviator Instrument Watches since 1990

Brendon Nunes has been flying many types of aircrafts; and in all of them the layout and function of cockpit displays controls are designed to increase pilot situation awareness without causing information overload. In 1993, the entrepreneur became one of the first instruments manufacturers of the post-Quartz Crisis to adapt the paradigm of aviator instruments to timepieces. For the dials, he drew inspiration from instruments features in the T arrangement.

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