Tag: Review

Owner Review: Orient Triton – the swan song of the tool dive watch

The Times They Are a-Changin’. Watches are by no means a necessary instrument in today’s world – tool watches, even less. And when an item is no longer a necessity, it starts becoming luxury. The watch industry is a prime example of this and with even Seiko steadily increasing their prices and pushing into Swiss…
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20/08/2020
Owner Review: Seiko Presage SPRE11J1 Irish Coffee

The Seiko Presage SPRE11J1, is a limited edition of 1300 pieces worldwide and is only available in certain countries in Asia. I have never really considered Seiko watches in the past, however this particular one caught my attention. It is partly to do with my Reverso Tribute Moon, which was purchased 5 months prior to…
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19/08/2020
Owner Review: HMT White Pilot – Very Rare, Yet Very Affordable

India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru believed that building watches domestically was a national imperative. Thus, Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) was founded as a state-owned enterprise to ensure an adequate supply of economical watches. The watches were made by the millions, in classic designs, at prices that many people could afford. The subject of this review,…
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18/08/2020
Owner Review: Gruppo Gamma Nexus NV-02

Gruppo Gamma was founded in 2013, as a small independent brand to deliver timepieces with soul. They seek to modernise and redefine the concept of tool watches, drawing inspiration from historic timepieces from the 20th century. I have been an avid follower of the brand as their vision statement really resonated with me. In the…
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17/08/2020
Owner Review: Panerai PAM 359 – The incarnation of cool

I went into the local AD to have a look at the Rolex Milgauss. Actually, I was planning to buy one. While trying it on and talking watches, the salesman (who really knew what he was talking about (he is a watchmaker) and was a good salesperson, too) said “in this price range, we also…
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16/08/2020
Owner Review: Ming 17.06 Monolith

My most charitable view about the Ming 17.06 Monolith: It’s a minimalist masterpiece with attention to detail you won’t find on any other watch in this price range. My most cynical view: It’s a boring, two-hand, time-only watch with a base level ETA movement. At $1500 the 17.06 Monolith offers the full Ming design language…
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11/08/2020
Owner Review: Oris Divers 65 Hodinkee – A day to remember

It was a day in June and at that time I had no idea, that at 4 PM, I was going to purchase an Oris 65. I knew Oris from my good friend, fellow watch nerd and big Oris fan, Jasper. He has a nice collection of Oris all super cool watches, one of them…
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10/08/2020
Owner Review: Dietrich Organic Time OT4 – A French designer does Sci-Fi

Please excuse the preamble, but many of my watches are acquired because of a connection with the watchmaker behind them. I first met Emmanuel Dietrich in about 2012/2013 at a small fringe independent brand show in Geneva, the GTE (Geneva Time exhibition or something) at around SIHH time. He was an industrial designer and was…
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09/08/2020
Owner Review: Ochs Und Junior Moonphase – What happens if you combine math, KISS and poetry?

Ochs and Junior fascinated me right from the beginning. The idea of owning a watch of one of the most important living watch makers and the uncompromised and stringent design mesmerized me, so that I was even looking into buying the «settima junior», a watch intended for children! (It showed the weekdays, which I found…
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08/08/2020
Owner Review: Omega Seamaster 14770 – 1962 (MCMLXII)

Bio: This Omega was made in 1962. This particular case model, the 14770, is known as a transition model from a “pre-de ville” Seamaster to the Seamaster De Ville, meaning some dials would have or not have a “de ville” under the seamaster text. I personally prefer the non-de ville dial which was only produced…
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07/08/2020