Holy crap.
Pièce Unique for the “only watch 2005” charity auction. “Cabriolet” wristwatch in rose and white gold; manually wound caliber 215 PS movement with subsidiary seconds. The two-tone silvery dial features rose gold baton indexes and two applied Breguet-style numerals at 12 o’clock. The subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o’clock emulates the square shape of the case.
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They’re everywhere! Here’s a new one, and he likes gizmodo.com, so that makes me feel good.
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Good thread on Newton & Sons, a notorious non-brand on Ebay. Good? Bad? Eh. If you want a cheap watch with little pedigree, go for it. As I’ve learned, it takes all kinds. However, it’s not a respected brand.
Consider this reply, for example:
Right, Newton-sons pretends to be high quality and they are not. That´s why N-S have been blacklisted on a German watch forum some time ago.
Buyer beware, as they say.
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WatchReport loves him some atomic watches. Introducing the Junghans Mega 1000 – great name, kind of fugly watch.
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Umm, there is SO much I could say here, but I’ll refrain.
I was at work the other day and noticed something very peculiar in that my left forearm was way bigger than my right. No kidding at all, I am right handed, use my right hand for the majority of heavy movement at work, my left hand is only used for programming machines and sometimes parts movement. I usually walk around 6 miles a day, sometimes as much as 18 miles, and I am swinging my arms while walking so the only thing I can come up with is that it is a result of wearing heavy watches on my left wrist. Either that or I am some kind of freak! Picture is of my actual forearm, no photoshoping what-so-ever.
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It may not have a tourbillon, but this watch phone is out of sight. Literally, because they’re not making it. It’s just a concept.
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I got one of the combat divers for my dad and he loved it. This guy sells great watches from Hong Kong. Some have ETA quartz and auto movements, nice prices, and great, Bondian styling. The quartz pieces I can do without, but I especially like one shown above, the “ITALIAN SBS AUTOMATIC PVD MILITARY WATCH.” Long name, cool watch.
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Nice thread on watchuseek.com about Kobold watches – Good stuff, but spensive as hell.
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Nice review of the IWC Aquatimer.
What sent me running to buy this watch was the fact that I was about to sell my 18kt gold vintage cal. 89 to a friend of mine. I knew that there would be a void in my collection without an IWC so the Aquatimer was just a logical choice for me. Prior to getting this watch, I had never seen it in person so I wasn’t sure how well it would look on my 7-inch wrist. Needless to say when I put it on for the first time I was very happy with the way it looked and I could instantly see why so many people loved their Aquatimers so much. It is very impressive looking, and you can tell that it’s built like a submarine.
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Chuck Maddox offers us an excellent look at his personal watchhunting toolkit. Very cute.
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Still getting my head around the Glashutte trip I went on two weeks ago. I’m working on a story for InSync, as well, so I’ll just offer a bare bones assessment of the factory and leave the heavy lifting for the dead tree magazine.
On the whole Glashutte turns out excellent pieces. That’s not surprising. Lots of people can do that. But to see it done, all by hand, in a long trip through both time and space, was just incredible. I mean get this: they have one guy who does all the engraving. If he were to get sick or decide to join a commune, the company is in a bad way.
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