Forgotten Heroes - Osvaldo Patrizzi - Founder of Antiquorum

When deciding to write a series about forgotten (or perhaps, to be precise, almost forgotten) figures from the watchmaking world, my main goal was to remind people that, firstly, it was not only N...

Forgotten Heroes - Albert Keck

In the next study entitled " The Forgotten heroes ” related to the great crisis of mechanical watches and Swiss watchmaking caused during the so-called quartz revolution by the flood of cheap Far ...

Forgotten Heroes - Gerald Genta

With this perverse title I would like to indicate that, although Genta is, on the one hand, very well-known as the designer of famous and iconic watches, including the Nautilus Patek model, Royal O...

Forgotten Heroes - Günter Blümlein

When it comes to the times of the so-called quartz revolution of the 1970s, everyone interested in watches probably knows the name of N. Hayek, who is widely considered to have saved the Swiss watc...