Dumb name, acceptable styling. I’m generally agin’ USB watches, but this one has a citizen chrono movement and looks pretty.
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Please drop by the Red Cross or NVOAD and find out how to help the folks caught in that horrible storm.
I love the 24-hour complication recently. Don’t know why. Maybe I’m growing. Anyway, great website all about 24-hour stuff. Love the Breitlings.
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An excellent comparison between the Rolex Exporer and the GMT. Kind of like watching two terriers fight to the death.
The Explorer II is created for cave-dwellers, when working under the surface over longer periods of time they can loose the sense for day-and-night orientation, and therefore Rolex created a watch which always displays the 24-hour notation of time as an extra feature. They introduced the white dial lateron on the ref.16550 so they can see the watch better in difficult and dim light-conditions. The Explorer II used the inhouse 1575 caliber when the watch initially was introduced. The Explorer II also came with the cal.3075 and the cal.3175. The bezel is fixed and it is engraved with the 24-hour track and made from solid stainless steel.
Cave-dwellers?
TimeZone: Watch Reviews: Comparison: Rolex Explorer II vs. Rolex GMT Master II
LED-Watch has dropped another goodie, the Space watch. Similar to the gunmetal version, this hot little number looks like it should be jetting off with Buck Rogers. Full reviews forthcoming.
Check out more info here.
I’m using Windows Vista right now because my Mac Mini EXPLODED and is being repaired. Vista is pretty cool.
This is also why I haven’t been posting much.
I like my Ohm’s Law as much as the next guy. That’s why this is going on my belt.
Our newest product features
both our AC and DC Ohm’s law
formulas and incorporates our
unique resistor band color chart.
You will have the AC formulas
on the inside and the DC
formulas etched onto the flip
down cover. It swivels and
rotates up and around so the
watch faces you as you view it.
It also features a Seiko
movement, sweep
seconds-hand, a lifetime
warranty, and a beautiful deluxe
tin box – perfect for gift giving!
Sweep seconds-hand?
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Adam at EoT found this incredible-looking Rolex. Looks like something James Bond wore in basic training.
“Large stainless steel case, with brushed case sides, fixed strap bars, screw down Rolex crown, and acrylic crystal. Fitted with the 60 minute marker bezel unique to the military issue Rolex Submariner. Screw case back with military issue markings. Original black dial with luminous dot and baton hour markers, outer minute marks, and signed Rolex Oyster Perpetual, 660ft=200m, Submariner, and Swiss T-25, with a white T in a circle. Original white metal sword hour hand, pencil minute hand, and arrow centre seconds hand. Nickel plated Rolex calibre 1520 movement with hacking seconds (seconds hand stops when the winder is pulled out to allow time synchronisation). The watch is fitted with a NATO-style nylon strap. It is estimated that around 1,250 Rolex Submariner watches (ref. 5513 and 5517) were bought by the British Ministry of Defence and issued up until the late 1970s. Model ref. 5513″
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Bulovas, SPOTs, 121Time, and More!
Drop me a line at john @ wristwatchreview dot com if you’re innarested.
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Timezone has some info on COSC Certification for 2004. COSC Certification is a pretty arbitrary certification of a time-piece, allowing it to be considered a “superlative chronometer” or some such pish-posh. It looks nice on the face and makes your watch more ‘spensive.
The number of timepieces registered fell by 10.4%, to 1,137,716 (1,104,691 in the mechanical category, -10.6%, and 33,025 in the quartz category, -3.8%). “In view of the behaviour of watch markets in 2004, this result could be seen as surprising,” writes the COSC in its annual report. “The findings must however be viewed in a relative context, possibly reflecting a depletion of stocks,” it points out
Read the rest here.
A really beautiful custom strap job by Greg at PMWF. Very cool.
The leather looks like it was from an old bomber jacket. It is incredibly soft. For each piece I used one long piece and folded it over and glued it together. That way the bottom side of the strap is the same as the top side. I’m interested to see how well it holds up as it is only cemented and not stitched. So far so good. My wife definitely thinks I am crazy now.
Check out the thread here.
