Author Archives
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Smoke Screen – is vaping good or bad?
Public health campaigns have so successfully tied smoking to lung cancer that people often don’t realize more smokers die of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than of lung cancer. Soneji tried to tell the shop owner, and many others at the… Read More ›
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Motorola (iPhone X) P30
Smartphone brand Motorola has been criticised for revealing a “shameless” copy of the iPhone X as its new model. Many phone-makers have copied the look of the iPhone X, which has a smaller bezel around the screen and a “notch”… Read More ›
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Timex + Todd Snyder Beekman™
The new Timex + Todd Snyder Beekman™ watch is based on an archival timepiece Snyder discovered while combing through the storied watch brand’s 160+-year heritage. While that watch, with its handsome curlicue tachymeter complication designed to gauge the speed of… Read More ›
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Why is Rolex so popular? Why?
I was talking to an authorised dealer for Rolex the other day and mentioned the fact that the Submariner and certain other models are seemingly being constrained in terms of the volume on sale. He disputed this and advised that… Read More ›
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A conversation piece
Such a good pitch for the wonderful Accutron technology.
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Watches feed a guy’s sense of security/superiority
To parse another thing that guys do: they see a watch all over social media, read about it in all the magazines … it quickly becomes the It-Watch, which they also start obsessively wanting. “Everyone who is anyone has X,… Read More ›
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$1 trillion and counting
It’s a lot of money and not really $1 trillion because of how the markets work, but it is a significant milestone that only a select few organisations had a chance of breaching. The reaction has been predictable in many… Read More ›
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Market Caps
The market cap of the top 5 S&P 500 companies: $4,095,058,706,432 The market cap of the bottom 282 S&P 500 companies: $4,092,769,755,136 Just in case you wondered where the money and the power really is. Tweeted by Michael Batnick.
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Is the Oris Divers Sixty Five perfect?
Probably. Well, it seems to be perfect for me or as perfect as any watch can get. Perfection is an unachievable aim and one that we would likely not want to attain even if we could. The opposite sex, or… Read More ›
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IKEPOD on the way back
Ikepod watches were brilliant but expensive. Our watches are still designed, developed and rationalized in Switzerland, now proudly made in Hong Kong by the best premium and luxury watches workshop. We had rationalized conception to offer you an affordable price…… Read More ›
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