Review: Buscum Ducis BD I
Starting your own watch company is hard. Unlike, say, hiring a factory in Taiwan to make a bunch of MP3 players for you, creating a watch takes patience, an understanding…
$100 off the Serket Reef Diver 2.0
Serket, formerly Scorpion, makes really nice dive watches. They're not very flashy but they're well-made and use real Swiss Movements inside an American-designed case. I've reviewed the 1.0 version of…
Botta Uno Automatic: Dude, I think you lost something
If you don’t really look, it’s a conservative, 42mm watch based on the workhorse automatic movement of Europe, the ETA 2824. But it has only one hand. No minutes, seconds,…
How to buy a watch
I'm just full of helpful hints this week. This one comes after seeing a comment on my other site, WristWatchReview about the BR02, a 1000M diver with a fairly striking…
How to polish a watch
OK. I just suffered a fairly hair-raising situation with my new baby. Due to my own carelessness, I dinged the Jaeger a few times and wanted to polish them out.…
New B&R BR03: You know, for the French
Just in time for the holidays we have a new Bell&Ross watch designed for the French Air Force. As you see, they've stuffed the same quartz movement you'll find in…
PhotoWatch!
A world class timepiece? A photoframe? Why didn't I think of this! Bonus to the readers - In which William Gibson book did someone see a sarariman with a holographic…
Horological Machine #3 shipping next year
You know me and my watch fetish. Well, there's one rarified section of the watch industry where mere mortals dare not tread. While you and I can't "go there," MB&F…
Good advice for polishing cases
I got a scratch in my new baby and just discovered this excellent article on Paneristi describing how to polish a watch with Flitz and a little elbow grease. Anyone…
Stephen D Time: When guerrilla marketing goes bad.
I have nothing but respect for competent, innovative marketing tactics. But when marketers fail to their homework and are clumsy with an unconventional approach, I will be first in line…