Like many people, my starting point for serious watches was with a well-priced brand long known for its expertise in developing movements, justly viewed as offering good value for money – but not necessarily for the refinement of its movement finishing, at least on its less expensive pieces. What have I learned since then?
Do you like traveling? I mean really traveling. This year is the 10th anniversary of the White Desert camp, a collection of small buildings on a remote piece of land in Antarctica, and to celebrate it’s gotten a serious upgrade. Included as part of the new White Desert travel package is the opportunity to purchase a special edition Bremont watch engraved with the dates of your expedition.
It is 6:30am in the Silicon Valley. You wake up in the morning to a string of emails, messages on slack and instinctively pop up your calendar to check out your day by the hour. After a speedy Nescafé shot and a mashed up banana to swallow down on your way, you book a Lyft to get you to downtown Menlo Park. You hop on the ride and dial the…
In February 2016, the monthly giveaway watch on aBlogtoWatch was an Azimuth SP-1 King Casino. The winner was Rajvind D., and he has written a review of this quirky piece for the aBlogtoWatch audience. Thanks to Rajvind and all the other watch winners who share their experiences with the world. Here is Rajvind’s review.
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We’re pretty sure this doesn’t need to be said, but let’s say it anyway. Don’t buy watches when you’re drunk. Nothing good can come from it. Seriously. Nothing. You’ll wake up hungover, surrounded with bottles of Dom/Chivas/Pabst (depending on budget and taste), considerably poorer and with a rare Enicar Sherpa Graph heading your way via the Philippines.…
A Spot the Watch that comes about again by accident slightly. We have seen shots from on the set of Jason Statham’s film Mechanic Resurrection with him wearing a notable dive watch, but were unaware of another watch being on his wrist in the film. We saw the RedBand trailer had just been released and…
A Spot the Watch that comes about again by accident slightly. We have seen shots from on the set of Jason Statham’s film The Mechanic Resurrection with him wearing a notable dive watch, but were unaware of another watch being on his wrist in the film. We saw the RedBand trailer had just been released…
Are you tired of me talking about tribute watches yet? I hope not, because this is a really awesome one. Longines has been featured in The Value Proposition a number of times, and for good reason. Out in Saint-Imier, they’ve done a nice job of digging back into the company archive for successful designs of days gone by and then recreating them without (as most companies do) screwing them up somehow. The latest example of this is the Heritage 1969 and it’s one of the better watches on the market today under $2,500.
I saw this “hand” with disconcertingly realistic fingers impatiently tapping at the MB&F M.A.D.Gallery in Geneva. Entitled “Fingers Mk III by Nik Ramage for Laikingland,” it is actually a piece of playful mechanical art. But what else might you use a handy device like this for? Leave your suggestions in the comments.
We’re now in the final days of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following two weeks of intense competition, thousands of athletes will be flying back home after Sunday’s closing ceremony, some with a medal or two (or six, if you’re Michael Phelps). As this year’s games come to an end, it seems fitting to finish with a little bit of Olympic horological history.