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1339 search results for: Why I Bought It

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6 Ways To Spot A Fake Watch, Even If You Don’t Know How To Spot A Fake Watch – Reprise

November 6, 2022/1 Comment/in Highlights, Collectors and Collecting, Thoughts & Opinion/by What Makes Me Tick

One evening, WMMT was sipping away at his ex-wife’s stock of 1945 Pétrus with his buddy Slippery Steve and contemplating a few of the essential questions in life, the kind that rarely find a real answer. Is there life after death? Can you really wear brown shoes after 6:00 PM? Is his Audemars Piguet […]

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anOrdain Model 1 Payne’s Grey Fumé: 50 Shades Of Grey Never Looked So Tempting – Reprise

November 6, 2022/0 Comments/in Highlights, Affordable Luxury, Independents/by Martin Green

anOrdain is not your average watch company. Located in Glasgow, Scotland, its name derives from a remote loch deep in the Scottish Highlands. There, Lewis Heath, a trained architect, first got the idea of creating a modern watch brand honoring traditional crafts. And the new Model 1 Payne’s Grey Fumé exemplifies how anOrdain not […]

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Lagavulin 16-Year-Old Whisky And Why Ron Swanson Was Right On The Money – Reprise

November 5, 2022/2 Comments/in Highlights, Wining, Dining and Cigars/by Ken Gargett

Malt lovers immediately fall into one of two camps: one does not enjoy the peaty, smoky, seaweed notes that whisky from Islay usually offers. The second group loves those characteristics. No prize for guessing where Ken Gargett falls. But what about Ron Swanson and Lagavulin from the Scottish island of Islay?

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The Twelve Watch Days Of Christmas

December 28, 2014/0 Comments/in Highlights, A. Lange & Söhne, Andreas Strehler, Armin Strom, Arnold & Son, Blancpain, Breguet, Bremont, Cartier, Christophe Claret, Corum, De Bethune, Greubel Forsey, Grönefeld, Harry Winston, Hermès, Hublot, Independents, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Jaquet Droz, Kari Voutilainen, Laurent Ferrier, Louis Vuitton, Ludovic Ballouard, Maurice Lacroix, Montblanc, Patek Philippe, Piaget, Ressence, Rolex, Romain Jerome, Urban Jürgensen, Van Cleef & Arpels, Zenith/by Joshua Munchow

You may be familiar with the old Christmas diddy “The Twelve Days Of Christmas.” Let me sing you the final verse of this song, including what my true love gave to me on the twelfth and final day, in horological terms…

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Tudor Pelagos FXD: Better Than The Black Bay?

October 21, 2022/1 Comment/in Affordable Luxury, Divers' Watches, Tudor/by Joshua Munchow

While considering his 2022 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève predictions, Joshua Munchow rediscovered the Tudor Pelagos, specifically the Pelagos FXD, a very practical and attractive watch. And it has caused him to reevaluate his position on Tudor and thinks that this one would look pretty darn good on his wrist.

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Five Vintage-Style Diver’s Watches To “Seas” The Day From Blancpain, Seiko, Longines, Oris, And Tudor – Reprise

October 15, 2022/0 Comments/in Highlights, Give Me Five!, Blancpain, Seiko/by Sabine Zwettler

Sabine Zwettler dives back through time to have a closer look at five vintage-style diver’s watches. With their robustness and air of discovery and adventure, diver’s watches leave a striking impression on the wrist – whether on dry land or in the water.

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Why Do Ulysse Nardin’s Dials Look So Good? Because Donzé Cadrans Authentically Fires Enamel

December 24, 2014/15 Comments/in Technology, Ulysse Nardin/by Elizabeth Doerr

The first timepiece Donzé Cadrans and Ulysse Nardin worked on together was in the early 1980s: the complicated jacquemart-outfitted Hourstriker San Marco with its vibrant blue, which was the first enamel dial of the modern incarnation of Ulysse Nardin and perhaps of the Mechanical Renaissance. Follow us on a visit to Donzé Cadrans and […]

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Measuring The Time Between The Seconds: The Truth Behind High-Frequency Movements – Reprise

October 2, 2022/3 Comments/in Collectors and Collecting, Technology/by Ryan Schmidt

Marketing material for the modern mechanical watch almost always includes a description of the the movement’s frequency. You may have even sensed that the higher the frequency, the more accurate a movement gets. But is this entirely true? Find out here.

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Behind The Lens: The ‘Lumendorff’ A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Lumen With Unique Custom-Fitted Platinum Bracelet

September 25, 2022/3 Comments/in Behind the Lens, Collectors and Collecting, A. Lange & Söhne/by GaryG

A couple of years ago, GaryG wrote about one collector’s obsession with the A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Lumen and the platinum Lange bracelet made by Wellendorff, and wanting to combine the two. The result was spectacular, and now he brings us another view of it told through his own photographs.

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Akrivia Rexhep Rexhepi Chronomètre Contemporain II (RRCC II): Despite Looking Similar To Its Predecessor, Everything Is New

September 24, 2022/7 Comments/in Akrivia, Independents/by Elizabeth Doerr

The classic design of the Akrivia RRCC II’s dial has roots in founder Rexhep Rexhepi’s vision of high-quality nineteenth-century pocket watch dials adorned with high-fire enamel and combined with a modern twist based on “sector” dials of the 1930s and ’40s. But there’s much more to this brand-new watch than that as Elizabeth Doerr explains.

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