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• The TAG Heuer Monaco Sixty-Nine

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Go beyond the watch itself and a deeper story lies behind the Monaco Sixty Nine. It was a sign of the ambition of the still fresh CEO Jean-Christophe Babin, not only in terms of design, but also manufacture. The Monaco… Read More ›

• The new Nomos Club and Tangente Sport models

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  All these new lines are very much Nomos, but they stretch the comfort zone of the brand’s design language. There’s more colour, more playfulness, and greater complexity in construction. Of course, the core is still that round steel watch, like… Read More ›

• The Tropical Dial Is a Flaw

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  And with a tropical dial, something sincerely has gone wrong: around the middle of the last century, Rolex primed its dials with a finish that was supposed to protect the watches from sun damage. Bizarrely, it had the exact opposite… Read More ›

• The Bulova Computron

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  It was a real surprise to see Bulova bring back the Computron in a form that is not dissimilar to the original from the 1970’s. If you want a timepiece that is unique, this would be a good way to… Read More ›

• The Electrostatic Accutron Concept Movement

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Accutron concept movement will remind Accutron enthusiasts immediately of the Accutron Spaceview, an original-production Accutron which had an open dial, allowing the tuning fork mechanism and transistor to be seen. The concept movement likewise exposes the mechanism, however, there’s… Read More ›

• No one noticed it, no one…

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The person putting the dial together didn’t notice. The person putting the case together didn’t notice. The person doing the final quality checking didn’t notice. The person selling it didn’t notice. The person buying it didn’t notice. We humans are… Read More ›

• Henry London Chancery review

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Introducing Henry London’s Chancery 41mm mesh bracelet wristwatch with a crimson red chronograph dial. The watch case is made of stainless steel and is completed with a double domed acrylic lens. The watch bracelet is made from stainless steel Milanese… Read More ›

• Citizen Brycen (AW1590-55E) review

  By Shaun on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  So, I finally got my grail watch, a Tudor Black Bay, and was happy. I wasn’t 100% happy because it was the GMT rather than the Black Bay Black, but because the waiting lists are so long to get the… Read More ›

• Fitness trackers ‘add miles to your marathon’

  By Shaun on April 27, 2019 • ( 2 )

  It found that the least reliable was the Garmin Vivosmart 4, which underestimated the distance by 10.8 miles – meaning the researcher actually ran 37 miles. Garmin said it was because that particular tracker did not contain GPS. It described… Read More ›

• To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time

  By Shaun on April 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  When my wife died, my life was thrown out of time. My past didn’t seem to connect to my present. How had the last 13 years turned me into an only parent of two young children, owner of a house… Read More ›

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