In the field of watch winders there are some brands that are really interesting because of the big steps they made in the last 5 years. Brands as Benson, Bernard Favre and Paul Design are good examples. Paul Design from Hong Kong is a brand we follow of a couple of years. We have met the owner, Paul Chen, of the brand at Baselworld last march. We see great passion and the will to create something special for watch adepts. 

Recently Paul Design introduced their new Illusion watch winder series. It's a beautiful and affordable series of watch winders which combines great looks with good functionality. The design is modern and the usage of materials with specific colours is very interesting. The Paul Design watch winders offer all functionalities you need to wind any automatic watch. 

One of our favorite models is the big cabinet, including watch winders, storage drawers and a safe. Competitor brands offer this kind of cabinets for 25.000 USD +, but this Paul Design cabinet does cost +- 17.000 USD. It's a big difference! 

There are several online stores where you can buy a Paul Design watch winders, such as BensonTrade and Watchwinders.com

We do look forward to new Paul Design watch winders and innovations, and keep you posted about them on this blog. 

Most watch winders do look the same and offer the same method of winding one or more automatic watches. There are only a few watch winder brands that distinguish itself from other brands. One of these brands is Kunstwinder. This brand located in the US produces high end watch winders which wind any automatic watch in a very special way. It's better to speak about pieces of art than about a watch winder. 

Kunstwinder did become popular with models such as the Oil Baron and Ferris Wheel. Winding your watches in one of these watch winders is a joy for your eyes. The materials and craftmanship are both of a very high level, which makes a Kunstwinder watch winder unique and suitable for many years of use. 

Of course this luxury comes with a price, but when you want an unique watch winder to wind your automatic watches a Kunstwinder is what you need. 

In this blog article we write about "Mémoire", the watch winder from RDI-Charles Kaeser 

Set off on a journey into the furthest reaches of time, and contemplate the memory of our beautiful planet in the fossilized wood that composes each side of this winder. Imagine a story that began 225 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed and the land was covered in dense primal forest. After two cataclysms, a mixture of water, ashes and other sediments has penetrated this tree well preserved. Function of the porosity, these minerals penetrated the trees at depth, using the wood fibers leading the sap.

Speaking from the tree, the trunk or the path taken by the tree: everything is unique. Taking account of this, we find the origin of the colors so different, even from one tree to another, speaking from the same species. To give only some examples: red, orange, yellow, are the witnesses of the presence of iron; black of carbon; blue, purple, of manganese. A very rich outfit of colors, so well expressed in the winder: Mémoire.

The deposits of fossilized wood are rare and very often protected as natural fossil heritage of the country where it is. The rare countries which authorize the extraction and the marketing of the fossilized wood make it in a statutory way. The petrified wood is rare, its extraction is difficult, and all step of the extraction is asking for the highest protection of the tree. We appreciate the technological achievement with this thinly meticulous polished layers of the tree we find in Mémoire. Every watch winder is unique and is a magnificence work of art. Mémoire, the real guard-time which makes you go back in time with this very rich pallet of colors.

We have heard that RDI-Charles Kaeser reserves us some surprises during the year. 

Some time ago we wrote about Aevitas watch winders. We received some questions and remarks from readers of our blog about this brand. One of the questions was about the quality of these watch winders. The answer is simple, the quality is not what you may expect at this price level. The funny thing is that this brand is only sold by a few online shops, all from the same owner. This owner is probably also the owner of Aevitas watch winders. It seems there is no other strategy then to sell over priced watch winders through their own sales channels. 

In our opinion Aevitas is not a real watch winder brand such as Swiss Kubik, Chronovision, Rapport, Buben & Zörweg etc etc. If you really love your automatic watches we don't advise you to buy a Aevitas watch winder. In that price range you can buy several brand which do a lot better, such as Wolf, Rapport, Swiss Kubik, Benson, Paul Design and several more. 

We keep you posted about Aevitas watch winders. 

2017 was the 100th anniversary of the most important show and premium event for the world's watch and jewellery industry. On this important, once in a lifetime anniversary year, Baselworld reaffirmed once more its status as a global trendsetting show where the crème de la crème of global brands like Buben & Zörweg exhibit their new watch winder collections and signal the start of a new trendsetting year.

During this 8-day exhibition the Buben & Zörweg booth remained the focal point of buyers who were again eager to discover in which new and creative ways the German brand was able to materialize passion, precision and perfection. By permanently showcasing innovation through their newest watch winders, Buben & Zörweg masterpieces are increasingly setting the pace of the industry as far as safety, exquisite design and perfect execution is concerned.

Many serious watch collectors visiting the Buben & Zörweg booth every year, have come to expect the unexpected, and this year it was the new Solitaire Vision that gathered their full attention. Protected by bullet-proof spy glass that allows an insight as soon as the sophisticated led lighting system is activated, the additional integration of 46 Time Movers, a fine timepiece with world time indication and tourbillon escapement, a SI-60 safe, a humidor, a bar module and an integrated hi-fi system contributed to the overall success of this masterpiece among visitors.

During 8 full days, Baselworld was unquestionably the place to experience first-hand the launch of trendsetting innovations and masterpieces. The passion behind the innovative spirit that distinguishes every Buben & Zörweg creation has thus been reaffirmed and will undoubtedly drive the German luxury brand forward with renewed vitality.