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It’s not hard to make watchmaking look good but this film takes the cake. It’s by Kat Mansoor and features two master watchmakers, Vianney Halter and Philippe Dufour.
In yesterday’s post, I brought another American brand (Tsovet) to your attention with one of their dressier offerings. Today, I’d like to take a look at something that I’d consider as more of an “every day” sort of a watch.
Apparently, it is! The brand in question is Tsovet – and they’re based out of California (established in 2008). I’ll admit – based purely on the name, I simply assumed it was a Russian (or Soviet-inspired) brand, and simply never took a closer look. The other day, though, curiousity got the best of me, and I began poking around their collection (and history).
Just had an interesting email cross my inbox that I thought I’d share out. If you purchase a watch today (the 28th) or tomorrow (the 29th) directly from Xetum Automatic Watches, they’ll throw in a free leather strap for you to have as a spare. All you need to do is forward your order confirmation email to service@xetum.com, letting them know what color strap you want.
Pretty good deal if you were thinking about getting a watch from them, if you ask me.
I was just poking around when I noticed that WWR was born in June, 2006 and, having missed the big day, I thought I’d celebrate now.
It’s been a long couple of years, many of them dry and desiccated thanks to my many intervening gigs including EIC of Gizmodo and now TechCrunch. But I founded this site to learn more about watches and now, it seems, that I’ve gotten my money’s worth. I’ve written nearly a thousand posts on this site and also written 100,000 words on watches for other sources. I’ve also recently started working with Ariel Adams and we’re already at episode 86 of the Hourtime Show. Pretty nuts.
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A few days ago, I brought to your attention what seems to be a good deal on an solid watch. Today, we’re going to take a look at another deal I came across – but I’m not so sure it’s as good as it seems.
At least, they have with a few of their automatic models showing an open dial. For today, we’ll take a closer look at their Esteem (FDB08005W) model. While I’ve not experienced an Orient watch first hand, they seem to have a good reputation – and as such, worth taking a closer look.
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If you didn’t give the pictures a closer look, you might simply think that we’ve got another Seiko 5 Series diver with nothing much of interest to it – and that would be understandable. However, this one has something quite interesting on offer – that bezel isn’t just painted, it’s domed!
I first came across this Oris BC3 Sportsman Day Date model when I was perusing the various Black Friday deals that Amazon had posted. Not only was it quite a mark down (more on that later), but I thought it was an interesting watch. I do think it has a bit of an identity crisis, though.
Following up on yesterday’s post, we’ve got the second watch that Orefici sent over for review – the Regata Yachting. This one is definitely much more oriented at an active use scenario. Let’s have a closer look!
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This week, John makes it through the entire show without a single rant while discussing Omega and the start of this years ‘Holliday watch guide’.
So who did they name? Seiko, Citizen, Luminox, Hamilton, Prometheus, just to name a few.
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We recently had the opportunity to take a look at some pieces provided by Orefici. For those not familiar with the brand, they trace their roots back to 1933 in Italy, though they’ve only been in the U.S. market since September of 2011. Today’s post will cover one of their dressier models, the Classico WorldTime.
We first talked about the Wimm One in August, noting that no wearable device has ever made sense to me, at least in watch format. I believe I may need to eat my words. The Wimm is a clever little module – the watch band is removable – that runs simple applets. It runs a stripped down version of Android and includes a fairly complete SDK for programming little widgets. In this incarnation, it includes a stopwatch, worldtime clock, and a few other treats. The watch drops into transflexive LCD mode when it needs to conserve power.
That is, if you really want to – and you happen to write with a MontBlanc. As I learned from Ariel’s post, they’re actually now available for purchase online. This is great for a couple of reasons. You can be assured of being able to peruse the whole collection from the comfort of your own home AND you’ll know how much you’re going to pony up for your purchase.
Now, let’s turn our attention to the one that grabbed my eye. Read more…
The Cinema Watch from Atelier Morpheus. Swiss made 45mm stainless steel automatic (ETA 2824-2), with sweep second hand, non-glare sapphire crystal, superluminova hands, screw down crown and case back, WR 5atm.
The two part 316L stainless steel case is a large 45mm in diameter. It features the word CINEMA etched on the side in a classic art deco font style. The caseback includes data on the watch, as well as the particular timepiece’s specific number from the limited edition of just 15o watches in this variation.
The dial is comprised of two distinct levels. The darker bottom has the texture of wound film, while the top has the template design of a 35mm film reel. Numbers are in a deco font, date window is black against white background, and the hands are coated with Superlumonova for visibility in a darkened movie theater.
The large crown is formed in the shape of a projector lens, with a black center core.
The Cinema Watch’s black strap is molded in the texture of a film strip, and has the Atelier Morpheus logo molded into it on the wrist side.
Designed by film lovers, for film lovers everywhere.
The Cinema Watch may be ordered from www.morpheuswatches.com for $1,495.00
