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Welcome to the Scottish Watches Podcast – Episode 344!
The star guest, Fiona Krüger. A lama inside of a car in Airdrie, Scotland where Fiona’s from. Video – https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/hilarious-moment-scots-hairdresser-spots-26449605 Wrist check: Fiona is wearing the Fiona Kruger Mechanical-Entropy-black-gold-movement The first piece of her second collection released in 2018, inspired by the idea that order is followed by chaos. Fiona Kruger Chaos collection Barbara is wearing the Oris Big-Crown-x-Cervo-Volante 01-754-7779-4065 Dave’s wearing his Louis Erard Excellence-Regulator-limited-edition-by-Alain-Silberstein-54230ns62 Louis Erard Excellence Le-Triptyque-Louis-Erard-x-Alain-Silberstein https://www.instagram.com/p/CVz107QLwNy/ Rikki’s wearing Doxa-sub-300-Carbon-Aquamarine DOXA Sub 300 Carbon Aqua Lung US Divers Hands On Watch Review Six years ago, on international Women’s Day, Barbara launched her blog https://whatsonherwrist.com/ This is her first post where she spoke with actress Debra Messing, Ruth Batson, CEO American Gem Society Labs, Mindy Grossman CEO of Home Shopping Network and a couple others- https://whatsonherwrist.com/2016/03/08/women-watches-words-an-introduction/ Barbara is now a regular contributor for https://www.vanityfair.com/the-latest-issue-of-vanity-fair-on-time and editor at large position for https://revolutionwatch.com/ Congratulations!!! A very novel idea of Barbara’s for her first interview with Fiona that included a ship wreck, Fiona revealing her biggest fears, being saved by the ghost of David Bowie and more – Watchonista Articles Bananas-Boats-And-Bowie-Forged-And-Fantastical-Tale-Being-Stranded-Island-Watchmaker-Fiona-Kruger Delia Derbyshire, an English musician and composer of electronic music. She made the theme of the original doctor Who. The Delian Mode – Delia Derbyshire documentary Delia Derbyshire – Doctor Who Theme About Fiona: She completed her BA in fine art in Edinburgh (coloring in degree) then worked at an art gallery in South Africa. She applied and got in for a master’s degree in product design and craftsmanship specialized in the luxury sector in Switzerland. A sponsor of the course was AP. She fell in love with watches after visiting the AP factory and the Patek Phillipe museum. Patek Philippe-Museum For her masters project she created the first Skull watch prototype. What inspired this watch was the idea that we won’t always be here, not in a morbid way but like the Day Of The Dead, it represents a celebration of the life that we have. Skull collection – https://www.fionakrugertimepieces.com/collections/watches/skull Skull designs in watch history:16th century skull pocket watches. Prague Astronomical Clock The production of her pieces – https://www.fionakrugertimepieces.com/pages/production Fiona’s design process involves closing herself off from the watch world so to not be influenced by other watch designs. Instead, she looks at art and architecture. After presenting her design to her manufacturing partners the design is revised and she lets them shine at what they are good at. Her secrete design weapon is her husband Michael who’s great at giving a non-artsy viewpoint. He also runs the front side of the business. Fiona Kruger clocks L’Epee table clocks: Fiona is currently working on four projects. Stay up to date by checking her:
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/fionakruger/
Website – https://www.fionakrugertimepieces.com/
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Now check out the shows we mentioned throughout the episode: Scottish Watches Podcast #239 : The Doxa Show – Innovators of The Dive Watch with James Lamdin Scottish Watches Podcast #236 : Catching Up With Barbara And Five Years of Whats On Her Wrist Scottish Watches Podcast #259 : Ferrari, McLaren, Space X and Watch Designer Frank Stephenson
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