Introducing – The Urwerk UR-210 Final Edition

Among the many bold and futuristic creations of independent watchmaker Urwerk, if I had to pick the one watch that best represents what the brand stands for, it would be the UR-210. Unique in design, sci-fi inspired, showing the time in a way that no other watchmaker does, large and provocative… It is the essence […]

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EVERY WATCH TELLS A STORY: You will either be horrified or hot for Rob's ghost bezel Tudor Submariner ref 7016

Ghosts are well known for haunting people. They leave people terrified. Too scared to leave their bedrooms at night. This ghost bezel Tudor Submariner ref 7016 is sure to keep you from sleeping, and the unshakeable feeling will be either intense horror, or intense attraction. There are unlikely to be fence sitters on this one. On Every Watch Tells A Story this week we hear from Rob, the man behind Geneva Blue who represents a number of independent watch (and accessory) brands right here in Australia, and his pretty remarkable 52-year-old Tudor Snowflake Sub. This special watch was born in the very late 1960s, and came into Rob’s collection through a watch enthusiast friend who had purchased it at auction. Two of the most attractive features of the watch are the highly collectible ghost bezel and the full set of box and papers that the watch was sold with. The beautifully faded bezel offers a sense of just what the watch has been through in the half-century since it left the factory, with an evenly pale fade that offers a charming contrast against the black dial that shows signs of an equally well-lived life. While this sort of wabi-sabi aesthetic…

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Women’s Watch Wednesday – Seiko Lukia for Women, Now Available Worldwide

Seiko’s line of women’s watches, Lukia, has been available since 1995 in Asia. Today, six models of the Lukia collection disembark in all corners of the globe. With vibrant dials made from mother-of-pearl and inspired by traditional Japanese colours and shapes, the Lukia watches are meant to encapsulate the glamour associated with Ginza, Tokyo’s upmarket […]

5 years ago

VIDEO: The Top 10 watches of Virtual Baselworld 2020, inc. Hublot, Longines, Seiko, Casio and Hamilton

Any Seinfeld fans will know what I’m talking about when I say that the Home Delivery Watch Fair, where we re-created both SIHH (or Watches & Wonders, as it’s known now) and Baselworld, was more akin to Kramer’s version of the Merv Griffin show than it was a real watch fair. As in, it was me and a cameraperson in our studio alone, pretending we were a TV show and throwing to random footage – most of it ours from over the years, and a fair bit of it, uh, not ours. In the last episode things blew open. It was me and Nick. Crazy, right.  Well, here’s the twist. It was a joke that started the world laughing and now, the joke’s on us, because we have many more of these longer format videos in the works, with an exciting range of topics, guests and special editions and even mini-series.  But before we get to that, let’s close this concept properly out the way we do in real life, at watch fairs. And that is with a list. To clarify what this list is assessing – it’s the best 10 watches released by  brands that would have shown at…

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5 years ago

Hands-on – Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m for the 36th America’s Cup

Announced recently by Omega and covered in this news article here, the Biel-based brand has just announced the renewal of its role as the official timekeeper of the America’s Cup, with the 36th edition to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from the 6th to the 21st of March 2021. At the same time, Omega […]

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