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Top 10 Watches from Phillips Geneva Watch Auction: XIX totaling $40 million – Rolex, Patek Philippe and Akrivia/Rexhep Rexhepi Dominate

May 16, 2024/2 Comments/in Highlights, Auctions, Akrivia, Patek Philippe, Rolex/by Carol Besler

The Geneva Watch Auction: XIX held over the weekend by Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, totaled 39,667,167, just a tad over its high estimate, and set five world records.

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Zenith Pilot Doublematic Reviewed by Tim Mosso: It’s a Grail Watch for him (if only he had a Bigger Wrist)

May 14, 2024/1 Comment/in Highlights, Zenith/by Tim Mosso

What if the prohibitive dream watch were eminently affordable to attain but too large to wield? Is that a grail? If so, behold Tim Mosso’s grail watch, the Zenith Pilot Doublematic.

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Tudor Ranger: Right Recipe But Half-Baked

May 10, 2024/0 Comments/in Highlights, Tudor/by Raman Kalra

Raman Kalra thinks that the Tudor Ranger might be the most interesting of the latest releases by Tudor, as it is a whole new model release. But as he points out, it does have issues he would like to see resolved.

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Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 Reviewed by Tim Mosso

August 15, 2025/1 Comment/in Highlights, Greubel Forsey/by Tim Mosso

The Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 is a new watch built like an old watch, and that’s exactly the point. Hand Made 1 isn’t the most complicated, conspicuous, or inventive Greubel Forsey watch, but it looks backwards to point the way forward.

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10 Watches Under $500 – and Some Under $200 – That I Love

May 7, 2024/8 Comments/in Highlights, Affordable Luxury, Collectors and Collecting/by Sam Loiterstein

While we tend to focus on the upper end of the watch market on Quill & Pad, the vast majority of collectors have much more limited disposable income to satiate their desires. However, as American college student and founder of the Campus Watch Chronicle blog, Sam Loiterstein explains here, there are a plethora of […]

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Long-Term Keepers: Three Watches I Can’t Bear to Sell

May 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre/by GaryG

If GaryG wants to buy a watch of any significance it requires that he sells one or more other pieces. The bad news is that all of the watches he doesn’t really love were sold off a long time ago! As a result, the discipline of asking “What watch in his current collection do I […]

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Ludovic Ballouard Upside Down and F.P. Journe Vagabondage I Reviewed by Tim Mosso

May 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Highlights, F.P. Journe, Independents, Ludovic Ballouard/by Tim Mosso

If you dare to compare, make it apples to apples. Ludovic Ballouard (Brittany) and François-Paul Journe (Marseille) both hail from France. Most pertinent to this comparison though is that both men designed quirky jumping-hour watches.

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New Release: MB&F HM8 Mark 2 – The Supercar for the Wrist turns Blue

April 27, 2024/0 Comments/in New for 2024, Highlights, MB&F/by Ian Skellern

Supercars are not designed and developed for your daily commute or to do the shopping run, although they can do those automotive tasks, they are made to get your pulse racing, adrenal pumping, and putting a smile on your face. And that’s just what MB&F HM8 Mark 2 does as well.

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Visiting the MB&F M.A.D.House: Take a Virtual Tour with this Photo Fest

April 27, 2024/0 Comments/in Highlights, MB&F/by Niclas Berglund

The M.A.D.House, as MB&F calls its headquarters, is just like the brand’s watches – unlike anything you have ever experienced. Niclas Berglund has a tour and takes us along.

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Tudor Pelagos 39 mm Thoughts: Blandly Exciting, or Excitingly Bland?

April 21, 2024/1 Comment/in Highlights, Tudor/by Raman Kalra

The Pelagos 39, is now more compact, moving from 42mm to 39 mm. Even more impressive and where the most notable change will be felt, the thickness has been reduced from 15mm for the Pelagos 42 down to 11.8 for the Pelagos 39.

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