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Nike Nate Grenade Watch

September 28th, 2006 2 comments

nike-nate-watch.jpgCare for a watch that looks like a grenade? Not even an unexploded grenade? Sure you would. Check out this Nike Nate watch that’s stainless steel and urethane, with one-touch backlight and even an alarm. It’s not too pricey at $130, and you can always scare little kids by telling them it’s a real grenade. Which is always fun until your wife elbows you in the ribs and tells you to stop it.

Nike Nate Watch [Uncrate]

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Odd Watches of the World

September 28th, 2006 No comments

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A great collection of watches from multiple manufactures featuring some of the oddest junk you’ve ever seen like this “mystery” clock. Mystery?

Odd Watches [Zorigami]

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Help Write WallStreetTechDaily

September 27th, 2006 No comments

Any techheads out there want to help out on WallStreetTechDaily.com. It seems our current writer has jumped ship. Drop me a line at john at bigwidelogic dotter com. Thanks.

UPDATE – Ding ding ding… we have a winner. I found a great writer already. Thanks to those who emailed.

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Help Citizen Make Watches for You

September 25th, 2006 No comments

I’m not too big on Citizen, but they’re asking for some help with their product so head on over and give them a piece of your mind in their survey.

Survey

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Pop Kobold

September 18th, 2006 2 comments

koboldpop_sml.jpgNow this is a weird duck. It’s a one-of-a-kind piece by Kobold that just sold for a 911 charity. Looks pretty beefy even though it could hang out on a harijuku girl’s wrist without looking out of place. Burton Morris designed the face.

Chad the Watch Guy » Pop Goes the Kobold
Release

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MB&F Horological Machine No.1

September 18th, 2006 2 comments

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Hokey shmokes. What is this thing? It’s a dual read-out watch with some sort of massive power plant, shown here. Very clever and potentially very expensive. Note: this is not a dual watch – the other side is this photo trick they like to do where they put a mirror to the back of the watch so you can see the rear glass.

On the dial side the HM1 looks like the command center of a rocket ship. The dial on the right provides a reading for minutes with a massive speedometer needle-like hand. An indication for the watch’s massive four barreled fuel tank is also mounted on this same axis. On the left dial you have a reading for hours. Both dials feature transverse mounted floating sapphire subdials to provide time indication on the left, and on which the power reserve indication is engraved on the right. The hour and minute hands have to communicate with each other across the massive divide between them. This was accomplished with an oversized, ultra-flat, mirror-polished wheel centrally located under the dial. Too thin to support from its axis, this wheel cleverly floats between two layers of precision-adjusted jewels. Because of the artisan minutia involved, only 100 watches will be made in the next three years. Indeed the Horological Machine No.1 is the horological equivalent of a super car. It is a mixture of technical mastery, truly refined traditional finish, and groundbreaking new aesthetics that heralds the arrival of one of the new masters of form and function — a new world collective known as MB&F, spearheaded by one of the watch industry’s most exciting young leaders, a man named Max Büsser.

MB&F Horological Machine No.1 [TimeZone]

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Romain Jerome Golf Master Tourbillon

September 18th, 2006 1 comment

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This thing looks pretty cool but Romain Jerome? Who is that? A porn star?

Hand-wound, La Joux Perret movement. Personalised tourbillon with invisible bridge fastening. Movement thickness : 5.40 mm. Movement diameter : 30.60 mm. Jewelling : 18 jewels. Power reserve : > 90 hours. Frequency : 21,600 vibrations per hour. CASE: 18-carat pink or white gold (total gold weight 97 g in white gold). Diameter: 42.9 mm. 13 parts assembled without any visible screws Sapphire crystals with multilayer anti-reflective treatment on both sides. Case-back engraved with limited series number. DIAL: 11 parts, in addition to hour-markers. Applied hour-markers. Applied 18-carat gold RJ logo. Blued steel hands, tips coated with white Superluminova C1. BEZEL: 18-carat pink or white gold, Versions set with brilliant-cut or trapeze-cut diamonds. Water resistance : 50 metres. STRAP: Hand-sewn mississipiensis alligator leather in brown, green, black or white. Buckle : 18-carat gold double folding clasp, safety push-piece (weight 32 g in white gold version). Edition : 50 in each gold colour.

Romain Jerome Golf Master Tourbillon [DreamWatches]

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NeoLog and Lexon – We Be Scammin’

September 8th, 2006 7 comments

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Looks like Nooka has got some lawsuit worthy IP-theft going on. NeoLog and Lexon are selling watches – probably from the same Chinese factory – that look just about like the ZEN-V if you squint. Anyone tried these things yet?

NeologStore | Wrist-Watch NEOLOG A-24 II [Neolog]
Product Page [Lexon]

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Tourneau Shop Sample Sale

September 7th, 2006 9 comments

New York readers head over to 317 West 33rd between 8th and 9th between Sept. 10 and Sept. 14 for up to 70% off of some of the watches Tourneau carries. If this is ANYTHING like the Swatch Group sample sale, I’d estimate there are going to be some hot hot bargains. The doors open at 9am each day and the sale closes at 6:30pm.

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58mm Monster Diver Reborn

September 5th, 2006 1 comment

1157187296.JPGLooks like something’s coming out of Russia other than caviar and hot women. We reviewed the great grandpa of this huge monster a while ago but here it is, back and better than ever. We’ll figure out where he got it, but I wouldn’t suggest buying it. It’s nust not worth it for five minutes of laughs.

Hi everybody and here is my big one 58 mm [The BIG Watch Forum]

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