Weekend Report: Officine Panerai Sponsors Sailing Heals For Fifth Year, Providing ‘A Spirit-Lifting Day At Sea’ For Cancer Patients And Their Caregivers

Panerai has cultivated an extremely close relationship with yachting communities, sailors, and competitive yachtsmen for almost a dozen years, and the various circuits – in the Western Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean, and North America – involve hundreds of yachts and yachtsmen competing in boats that span over a century of yacht design, construction, and competition. At the same time, however, Panerai also sponsors the nonprofit organization Sailing Heals, which, in conjunction with the North American regatta circuit, provides an opportunity for cancer patients, their caregivers, and their families to get out on the water and experience a day-sail in some of the most beautiful classic yachts on the circuit. Panerai is a founding sponsor of Sailing Heals, which was founded by Trisha Boisvert in 2011 in collaboration with Officine Panerai.

8 years ago

Does Hand Finishing Matter? A Collector’s View Of Movement Decoration (Archive)

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?

8 years ago

Weekend Reading: An Ice Hotel In Antarctica Where You Can Earn A Special Edition Bremont

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.

8 years ago

Spot the Watch: Watches of the Silicon Valley

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…

8 years ago

WATCH WINNER REVIEW: Azimuth SP-1 King Casino

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.

8 years ago

HOW TO: Buy a watch when you’re drunk

Image: WarnerBros.com
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.…

8 years ago

The Value Proposition: Longines Heritage 1969

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.

8 years ago

Can’t Put Your Finger On It? Caption Competition #33

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.

8 years ago