This watch is conflicting to me. It is an obvious homage to my grail watch, the IWC Ingenieur, but it is one that offers many surprises. A quick round up of the specs follows- 316L Stainless Steel caseSapphire CrystalPT5000 movement… Read More ›
Watches
What? Why? How much?
Five months. Fifteen prototypes. Engineered to a precision of ±0.02mm, each concentric ring from the gun barrel sequence was milled from solid aerospace titanium. What emerged wasn’t a device — it was a story you can hold… More here. So,… Read More ›
NATO STRAP
Strap in black with turquoise stripe, made from recycled fishing nets, with brushed black ceramic buckle and fabric loop. OMEGA’s NATO-inspired straps have been influenced by some particularly robust and storied ancestors and can trace their earliest origins to the… Read More ›
The SEA-GULL 1963 International Edition (in pictures)
I picked up this watch last week while it was on a very decent Prime sale and I have not been disappointed. It is a watch that I have looked at for some time and one with a lot of… Read More ›
The Swatch Museum
It’s free to the public, sharing the same building as Omega’s museum. Covering a broad range of models since the brand’s inception in 1983, the Swatch museum has so much to see that I went twice during my time in… Read More ›
£40 and 60 years old
I went to an antiques fair a while back and picked up a couple of watches. The above watch, a Seiko 7625-1990 if you must know, is from 1965 and cost me £40. It runs very well and looks stunning… Read More ›
The Casio Ring Watch (CRW-001-1ER) in Pictures
I received an email last week from Casio offering me the chance to enter a lottery for the Casio Ring Watch. The email was from Casio because I have an account which I have only used to buy one watch… Read More ›
YACHTINGRAFF SECONDE / SECONDE
Meet the Yachtingraff (yeah, with two F’s because rules are made to be sprayed over). A historic 1960s sailing chronograph turned canvas for the most charming watch vandal in the game… More here. There is something about this dial and… Read More ›
CW&T Solid State Watch
This project begins as a celebration of the Casio F-91W wristwatch. Initially released and unchanged since 1989, this affordable, reliable and accurate timepiece is a beautiful feat of engineering. You seriously can’t find another piece of technology that’s so ubiquitous… Read More ›
Analogue Apple Watch Alternatives
With a rounded tonneau case reminiscent of the Patek Philippe Ellipse, the Noah x Timex Lighthouse Watch combines the modern horological trend for slim understatement, with throwback cool. The quartz ticker features a compact, rounded 31mm x 35mm case with… Read More ›
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