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As we celebrate National Day 2021, take a moment to time travel to key moments in our country’s past through a number of important clocks, pocket watches, wristwatches and even marine chronometers.
Hublot made its debut at Baselworld in 1980, and it was at this annual watch and jewellery fair in Basel, Switzerland that The Hour Glass (THG) was also first acquainted with the fledgling watchmaker. Established only a year earlier, The Hour Glass was looking for a signature brand to complement their concept of specialist watch retailer. Hublot caught their attention with its nautical watch that boldly combined gold and rubber—common today but shocking back then. Throughout the four decades, both partners mirrored each other's growth from industry rookies into household names, and have r...
Singapore's pre-eminent watch retailer, The Hour Glass, was established in October 1979 by Dr. Henry Tay and Jannie Chan. The two had had the vision of transforming the face of watch retail, presenting to customers a destination that was refined, upscale and focused on fine watchmaking, something until then that had been absent on the Singapore landscape. Right around the same time more than four decades ago, a man by the name of Carlo Crocco was crafting his own destiny in Italy. His ambition was to create a radically different luxury-sports watch, the very notion of which had only been inve...