With watches priced in pounds — particularly those at the high end — suddenly much more attractive to the international market, customers from all over the world have been buying in Britain. London has felt the biggest “Brexit” boom. According… Read More ›
Watches
Seiko SRP775K1 thoughts
I recently picked up the attractively named Seiko SRP775K1 for review which is one of the most traditional watches that Seiko makes. It is a remake of the classic Seiko 6309 and also one of the most accurate remakes I… Read More ›
Just Husbands
Superb marketing from Fossil.
The Statue of Liberty Almost Got a Glowing Wrist Watch
It was 1926, and the trio of watchmakers—Benjamin, Oscar, and S. Ralph Lazarus—had opened a shop on Beekman Street, in Lower Manhattan. Their business was a short walk from the Battery, where they would have been able to stand on… Read More ›
The Wristwatch Handbook
Despite the functional obsolescence of the mechanical wristwatch (our phones and computers tell more accurate time) the early 21st Century has seen a boom in the development, production, and appreciation of all things horological. Whether it is presented to the… Read More ›
Swatch Group: considering massive price hikes
Swatch Group regrets Comco’s decision and deems it utterly unrealistic. Swatch Group is forced to maintain the production capacities for third-party customers – with substantial financial and personnel expenditures – although in some cases, the third-party customers have drastically reduced… Read More ›
Robusto Ti5
We were looking for a high quality timepiece that would withstand, not only, the test of time but also the burden of daily wear and tear. A timepiece that is engineered to the highest specifications, build with the best materials… Read More ›
Smartwatch shipments dropping
The smartwatch market isn’t quite as red-hot as it looked in recent months. IDC estimates that smartwatch shipments fell by just shy of 52 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2016, with the biggest names often being the hardest… Read More ›
Fossil bets big on smart watches
On the heels of Misfit announcing the Phase, its first hybrid smartwatch, a bunch of other Fossil Group brands want in on that action. Chaps, Diesel, Emporio Armani, and Michael Kors have all added hybrid smartwatches to their connected devices… Read More ›
Visiting the Casio G-Shock Watch Headquarters
If you have any interest in the watches of Casio, this article from A Blog To Watch will make for a compelling read. Amazing how much work goes into a mainstream product. The brilliance of G-Shock wasn’t apparent at the… Read More ›