Tag: Review

Owner Review: Glashutte Original Senator Karree Perpetual Calendar – A perpetual calendar you can ACTUALLY read the date on.

In watch making, a perpetual calendar function signifies a watch where the date automatically adjusts for each month of the year including leap years. Provided you continue wearing the watch (or keep it on the winder), you will not need to adjust the date until the year 2100 (which is the next exception to the…
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04/08/2020
Owner Review: Citizen Blue Angels World Chrono is a gift that keeps on giving

Inherited from my late father, this Citizen Eco-Drive World Chronograph A-T is a sight to behold. Since I’m a high school student on a tight-arse budget, I’m very thankful that this could literally be my one and only watch until the day that I died. However, one side-effect of owning it is falling in love…
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03/08/2020
Owner Review: Ollech Wajs P-101 – The Rebirth of Cool

Ollech & Wajs (pronounced: “Oh-leck and Vice”) may not be a brand most people are familiar with. Established in Zurich in 1956, OW enjoyed quite a bit of success selling precision tool and dive watches via mail-order catalogs and military PXs during the time of the Vietnam War; Digging through their back-catalog, it’s not hard…
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02/08/2020
Owner Review: Ares Watch Co Diver-1 Mission Timer

In this day and age, if a dive watch is what you seek, there are a multitude of options to select from: Automatic or Quartz movements; the well known pieces and some gems that are as yet not as well known. The Ares Watch Co Diver-1 Mission Timer, designed and manufactered here in the U.S.…
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01/08/2020
Owner Review: Tian Harlan Chromachron – Colourful is my favorite colour

Encouraged by the recent reviews of quartz watches, I want to show you the first kind of real (?) watch I ever bought … from this purchase on I always check what I – and others – have on the wrist. During my time at university I spent 6 months as an intern at a…
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30/07/2020
Owner Review: Bulgari Aluminum Diagono – Italian chic!

Bulgari is a brand that is synonymous with luxury. Originally a high jewelry brand, Bulgari has made its way into the watch world with a bang! – with exceptionally finished and innovative in-house movements and innovation in materials. Before Bulgari made a debut into the high horology world, their watches were marketed as luxury “fashion…
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28/07/2020
Owner Review: Tudor North Flag – the indie Tudor tool choice

I got this as an everyday day casual watch, which was a brief that had been exclusively filled by divers for me previously. This was before I got into owning a number of watches that those not in the watchfam would consider ridiculous. I had been wearing an Omega Planet Ocean, large, orange, my most…
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26/07/2020
Owner Review: The Ianos Avyssos is a Dive watch you must sea to believe.

So, what can I tell you about my Ianos Avyssos Blue?? I got it for my Birthday this year in January – placed a blind order online – and it arrived, very quickly, straight from Ianos Watches in Switzerland, with regular updates throughout from Jacob, the creator and owner, via email. It is a steel…
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24/07/2020
Owner Review: The Nivada Cousteau

The ability of vintage watches to tell stories of mankind always fascinated me. I am particularly attracted to tool watches with the Portuguese import hallmark, as they connect me to my country and make each piece more distinctive. Growing up in Portugal in the 80s, like every other kid I frequently watched Cousteau and Calypso…
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23/07/2020
Owner Review: Casio G-Shock DW5600 – The Moonwatch That Could Have Been

For as long as I’ve been into watches, I’ve been into G-Shock. No real collection is complete without one, or in my case about a dozen. When considering purchases of high-end watches it often takes me years before I make a final purchasing decision, with G-Shock, the quality and value they offer make them impulse…
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22/07/2020