Earlier this year we covered Vulcain’s new Cricket Nautical Seventies Limited Edition model which paid homage to a very funky version of the Cricket. Vulcain have just released another new model, this time paying tribute to its 1961 Nautical watch… Read More ›
The name of the watch brand Squale is derived from the Italian ‘squalo’ for shark, which forms part of the logo for the important dive watch brand that is the subject of today’s post. Squale’s origins lie in a small… Read More ›
Oris are known for producing solid tool watches, including a number of divers’ models. This year, they have released the first divers’ watch which measures depth by means of the intuitively horrifying idea of allowing water to enter the timepiece…. Read More ›
Following on from a previous post, this is the second part dedicated to some of JEANRICHARD’s range of relaunched and new watches. For this post, we cover the sports range – the Aeroscope, Aquascope and Terrascope. First we start with… Read More ›
Vulcain, most well-known for its Cricket alarm watches, has launched a faithful modern replica of their Cricket Nautical from 1970. The first Nautical models were launched back in 1961; these watches were not only capable of going down to 300m… Read More ›
I own a small number of watches, though never enough, of course. Amongst them, there is one that stands out as a watch I can wear without having to worry about inconveniently placed pieces of steel or concrete deciding to… Read More ›
With all the recent fuss about Omega’s Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M ‘SKYFALL’ LE, we thought that we’d go ‘back to basics’, in a manner of speaking. The Seamaster story goes back to 1948, when Omega launched a watch with a… Read More ›
Panerai has announced a new addition to their popular Submersible line – the PAM389, aka the Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanio. A variant of the PAM305 Luminor Submersible 1950, the PAM389’s case has a 40,000 A/m (ampere… Read More ›
I’m going to go out on a rather safe limb and suggest that there’s a strong correlation between those who know of Ennebi and Panerai owners (well, Paneristi, to be honest), and that second to them, the brand is then… Read More ›
Photoshopping and its related manipulative ilk. We talk about such electronic chicanery a lot for human models, but not so much for watch models. Why? We can be similarly seduced, mislead, astonished, disappointed, persuaded into reckless expenditure, after all. No… Read More ›
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