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1339 search results for: Why I Bought It

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Why I Bought It: MB&F Legacy Machine 101 2021 Edition

September 22, 2024/1 Comment/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, MB&F/by GaryG

Once upon a time, there was a watch enthusiast (GaryG) who admired the work of Max Büsser and his watchmaking enterprise MB&F and who dearly wanted to own one of his watches. But which one? Well, it took years, but Gary eventually decided on the eye-catching 2021 LM101 in white gold and here he explains […]

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Why I Bought It: Grönefeld 1941 Remontoire

September 22, 2024/0 Comments/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Grönefeld, Independents/by GaryG

There are some watches you fall for the moment you see them. Sometimes that initial infatuation passes and you move on to the next temporary obsession, but then there are those instances in which the more you see, talk about, and learn about a piece and its origins the more you resolve to save […]

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Why I Bought It: Nomos Ahoi Ref. 552 – It’s Both Relatively Affordable and Very Versatile

February 23, 2024/0 Comments/in Highlights, Nomos Glashütte/by Martin Green

Sometimes the right watch has a way of finding you instead of the other way around. And that happened to Marin Green with a Nomos Ahoi Ref. 552.

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Why I Bought It: Wyler Vetta Beaux Arts Triple Calendar Moonphase Chronograph, a Blast from the Past

September 20, 2023/7 Comments/in Highlights, Affordable Luxury, Collectors and Collecting/by Quentin Bufogle

The Wyler Vetta Beaux Arts collection’s design language is firmly rooted in its Italian origins.  Love it or hate it, one glance will confirm you’re in the presence of something decidedly different.

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Why I Bought It: Grönefeld 1941 Remontoire

September 17, 2023/3 Comments/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Grönefeld, Independents/by GaryG

There are some watches you fall for the moment you see them. Sometimes that initial infatuation passes and you move on to the next temporary obsession, but then there are those instances in which the more you see, talk about, and learn about a piece and its origins the more you resolve to save […]

236

Why I Bought It: MB&F Legacy Machine 101 2021 Edition

September 12, 2023/0 Comments/in MB&F/by GaryG

Once upon a time, there was a watch enthusiast (GaryG) who admired the work of Max Büsser and his watchmaking enterprise MB&F and who dearly wanted to own one of his watches. But which one? Well, it took years, but Gary eventually decided on the eye-catching 2021 LM101 in white gold and here he explains […]

237

Why I Bought It: A Bulova Like Mobster Bugsy Siegel – Reprise

June 4, 2023/0 Comments/in Affordable Luxury, Collectors and Collecting, Vintage/by Quentin Bufogle

Watch collector Quentin R. Bufogle was determined to add a piece to his collection harking back to those dust-strewn days of early Las Vegas, a time when the occasional tumbleweed still ambled along what would one day become the famous Las Vegas Strip. And he found it in a 1946 Bulova Aviator B. Here’s how […]

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Why I Bought It: Collector Quentin R. Bufogle And His 2006 Omega De Ville Chronoscope Chronograph – Reprise

March 12, 2023/3 Comments/in Collectors and Collecting, Omega, Vintage/by Quentin Bufogle

If you would’ve told Quentin R. Bufogle six months ago that he’d pass on a Breguet Type XX in favor of an Omega, he might’ve thought you were crazy. What changed his mind? Granted that in terms of sheer aesthetics, it ticks all the right boxes for him. But there’s much more to it.

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How And Why To Build A Clock: Gato Long Clock By Dilip Sivaraman, AHCI Young Talent Finalist 2016

April 17, 2016/26 Comments/in Clocks, Independents/by Ian Skellern

Meet 38-year-old Dilip Sivaraman from India, who entered the 2016 Young Talent Competition sponsored by the AHCI, F.P. Journe, and Horotec, where he was a finalist. Sivaraman had started out wanting to fix an antique clock he had bought, but ended up making his own clock, called Gato, escapement and all.

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Valjoux 7750: The World’s Greatest Chronograph Movement By Far (By Popularity And Numbers) – Reprise

February 5, 2023/1 Comment/in Watch Brands & Horology, Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Technology/by Martin Green

As Martin Green became ever more impressed by the performance of the Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement, he also found himself enamored by its little quirks and the variety of watches it has been tapped to power. Here Martin outlines the history of this classic automatic chronograph movement.

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