Watching the Web for February 28

By Matt Himmelstein February 28, 2015

Welcome to our weekly feature, Watching the Web, where Patrick and I get to point you toward some watch related articles we found across the WWW, as well as highlight some of the more popular articles over the last week or so from our own site. This week, I found a history lesson on railroad watches from Wound for Life, Monochrome highlighted the Arnold & Son Dual Side True Beat watch in stainless steel, and A Blog to Watch covered the Pebble Time. From our write-ups, Patrick’s review of the WT Aurthur 1914 was very popular, as was our link to Every Day Carry and the review of the Ziiiro Eclipse.

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Crowd Funding Wrap Up for February 2015

By Matt Himmelstein February 27, 2015

February is now in the books, and with the second month of the year came a number of watch projects on crowd funded sites. Myself, I tend to favor projects listed on Kickstarter, and have purchased a number of them, but there are alternative sites, most notably Indiegogo. In addition to the projects below, I have longer reviews of the Nevo Watch, which is technically over but still collecting pledges in “bonus time;” the Trintec Zulu-07, running through March 7; the Melbourne Watch Company Avalon, running through March 16; and the Mercer Watch Company Brigadier, funding on March 29. I am also working on a write up of a new crowd funded design from Techne with is currently on Rockethub. I have a Techne, and the company has been on our pages several times, so I have no issue in recommending this project if you are looking for a military cockpit style quartz watch,

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LG G Watch, The Best Looking Smartwatch Yet

By Matt Himmelstein February 26, 2015

I don’t really care for smartwatches. The ones that most interest me, thus far at least, have been ones like the Withings or Hoptroff that integrate a smartwatch feature into an analog watch. Well, the LG G Watch flipped that technique, taking the look of an analog watch and integrating it into a full blown smartwatch. It is, in my opinion, the best looking smartwatch out there.

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Last Month EDC – PhD Student

By Patrick Kansa February 25, 2015

This week, we’ve got another look at some Every Day Carry components, this time around from an aspiring PhD student. There’s a great set of items she’s carrying, including a rather nice Bulova Accutron.

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Hourtime Episode 173 – Movado Quality Watch

By John Biggs February 25, 2015

Welcome to the HourTime show, the best 30 minute (+/-) hour podcast on the web. This week…

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Around the World With The Ritmo Mundo Corinthian World Time

By Patrick Kansa February 25, 2015

If there is one complication (or class of complication) that I have become an ardent fan of, it is the world timer. While this often takes the form of a secondary hand to track another time zone, this can also take the shape of a cities disc that rotates around (as with this Baume & Mercier Capeland), or even a second time register. When we have a secondary time register, this is often synchronized to the main time display, as on this Techne. With the Ritmo Mundo Corinthian World Time, that second register can actually be independently set.

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Introducing The Christopher Ward Jumping Hour Mark III

By Patrick Kansa February 24, 2015

When it comes to watches that offer a tremendous value, the catalog coming from Christopher Ward has been offering a lovely variety of watches, with various price points on tap for all budgets. Lately, they have expanded the range into something more approaching luxury territory, and the brand has also expanded to have some of their own movements. This has been most prevalent by their Johannes Jahnke’s designs, of which we now have a third iteration in the form of the Christopher Ward Jumping Hour Mark III.

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Ziiiro Eclipse – Put a Ring on It

By Matt Himmelstein February 23, 2015

Who doesn’t like a little glow in their lives? I think that may be what Ziiiro is hoping for with the release of the Metalic version of the Ziiiro Eclipse. The updated version offers one completely new color and new stainless mesh straps on their two hand watch which uses a ring of lume to illuminate the time, and a bit of your night life.

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The Watch Video Rewind for February 22, 2015, featuring Glashütte Original

By Patrick Kansa February 22, 2015

Welcome back to our regular feature, the Watch Video Rewind. In this series, we bring to light videos we feel are interesting and worth sharing out with our readers. Today, we actually have a set of five videos, all combined into a single playlist, all covering different perspectives of the brand Glashütte Original.

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Watching the Web for February 21, 2015

By Patrick Kansa February 21, 2015

Welcome back to our weekly installment, Watching the Web, where we have a quick look at some interesting watches and articles that have popped up over the last week (or so), as well as taking a second look at what some of our more popular articles this week were. Today, we have an editorial about Shinola, a crazy Urwerk, and news of an official repair shop for Lew & Huey. After those, we’ll highlight (as usual) some of our more popular posts from the last weekRead on to see what we’ve got in store for you.

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