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The Longines Comet
The Longines Comet, a short-lived mystery dial from the seventies, is an unusual watch from Longines, featuring a broad arrow for hours and an orbiting dot for minutes. Both are on revolving discs, making them appear to move without being… Read More ›
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Pre-owned watch shops : Hong Kong
Watches. Hong Kong. It is virtually impossible to go anywhere in this city without bumping into a watch shop of some description, whether it’s one of the many branches of City Chain, the plethora of shops in Central, TST and… Read More ›
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Hands-on with the Dior Chiffre Rouge T01
Many of the well-known fashion houses have been producing watches for years, most of them without horological distinction, their productions being regarded as just ‘fashion’ pieces. This seems to be changing of late with some interesting, not to say innovative,… Read More ›
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Rolex 5510 – Some notes
As we have mentioned in this previous post, Rolex 5510s have been in the news a little of late (and in the US$66,100 ebay 5510’s case, this interest even appeared in the non-watch media). Compared to the 5510 that went… Read More ›
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Rolex 5510 – Christie’s Auction 2366
If you lost out on the recent much talked about ebay auction of a Rolex 5510 covered here by Hodinkee, you can always try for this one, up for auction at Christie’s Sale 2366 on 14 December in New York…. Read More ›
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Hands-on with the AMVOX2 Chronograph DBS
What is it about cars and watches? Whether it’s co-branding, collaboration or ‘inspired by’, TAGs, Rolex Daytonas, Chopard Mille Miglia, Panerai Ferrari, Breitling for Bentley, Manometro, the list is endless, with even Spyker is getting in on the act with… Read More ›
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Hands-on with MeisterSinger’s No3 – PVD
For a company that has only been in existence since 2001, MeisterSinger has managed to do quite well, picking up awards here and there for their designs, and becoming arguably the most well known modern proponent of single-handed watches, also… Read More ›
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Vacheron Constantin Royal Chronometer
HISTORY The term ‘chronometer’ was coined by English watchmaker and writer Jeremy Thacker in 1714 in his pamphlet ‘The Longitudes Examin’d’ for clocks used to calculate longitude on marine voyages. He invented a marine chronometer, a clock encased within a… Read More ›
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Hands-on with Seiko’s (new) Quartz Astron
December 2009 was the 40th anniversary of the world’s first Quartz wristwatch, the Seiko Quartz Astron 35SQ. Based on a quartz crystal oscillator (an electrical signal with an extremely precise frequency), its importance is acknowledged by its registration on the… Read More ›
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Hands-on with the Aristo Sextant
The Aristo Flieger Sextant has its roots in a German sextant watch used by Wernher von Braun and his team at the Peenemünde rocket proving ground (“Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemuende”) in the early 1940s. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March… Read More ›
