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1339 search results for: Why I Bought It

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Beauregard Dahlia And Lili: Opening Like A Flower

September 27, 2020/1 Comment/in Highlights, Independents, Ladies watches/by Elizabeth Doerr

Elizabeth Doerr has not seen a watch by Alexandre Beauregard’s little firm that she hasn’t immediately fallen in love with. The Dahlia with its central flying tourbillon movement and hand-carved stone petals is just perfect. And along comes the more affordable, rectangular Lili. Flowers have rarely looked so good!

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For The Sake Of Sake: A Primer With Tasting Notes

October 1, 2020/0 Comments/in Highlights, Wining, Dining and Cigars/by Ken Gargett

Basically, sake comprises rice, water, and the fermenting agent called koji, resulting in an alcoholic level that usually sits between 13 and 16 percent. And you might be interested to know that the rice used is different from the standard table rice so popular with Japanese food. Ken Gargett takes a deep dive into […]

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

September 20, 2020/1 Comment/in Collectors and Collecting/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. Where do we come from? Is there life after death? Can you really wear brown shoes after 6:00 […]

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Seiko’s Secret: Specialist Haute Horlogerie Micro Artist Division In Japan – Reprise

September 13, 2020/1 Comment/in Seiko/by Elizabeth Doerr

Seiko’s story is much more complicated than most people might think. This is a manufacturer that not only followed a trend, but actually created some of its own, capitalizing on expertise, knowledge, and skills that were practically the mother of necessity for this manufacturer located so far away from the established European centers of […]

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Grand Seiko Elegance SBGW263 And SBGW264: Using The Principles Of Japanese Aesthetics

September 6, 2020/2 Comments/in Seiko/by Joshua Munchow

[…] to celebrate 60 years of Grand Seiko are fairly different on the surface, but both achieve similar success of representing the sub-brand’s aesthetic and legacy. With possibly two very different customers for each watch, Grand Seiko also utilizes guiding principles to speak to both that are rooted in Japanese aesthetic conventions as Joshua Munchow explains.

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De Bethune DB28 Steel Wheels Sapphire Tourbillon: Let There Be (Blue) Light!

September 4, 2020/0 Comments/in Highlights, De Bethune/by Elizabeth Doerr

The effect of the blue sapphire crystal bridge on the De Bethune DB28 Steel Wheels Sapphire Tourbillon is astonishing. It is simultaneously light, airy, and (importantly) blue. It reflects the light back in the friendliest of ways. It is De Bethune blue, but it is also translucent to reveal the layers below it. The […]

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85 Years Of The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso – Reprise

September 6, 2020/3 Comments/in Highlights, Jaeger-LeCoultre/by Elizabeth Doerr

It perhaps seems like overkill to “celebrate” an anniversary like 85 years, but when you’re a wristwatch as old and as evergreen as the Reverso, it somehow becomes appropriate. In honor of the long and successful career of the horological icon, we took a brief look back over the 85 years of this […]

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

September 5, 2020/3 Comments/in Affordable Luxury, Oris, Blancpain, Divers' Watches, Seiko/by Sabine Zwettler

With summer in full swing, 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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The Watch That Changed My Life: The Jean Daniel Nicolas Two-Minute Tourbillon By Daniel Roth – Reprise

August 30, 2020/0 Comments/in Highlights, Independents, Jean Daniel Nicolas/by Ian Skellern

[…] watches hold a special significance for their owners. Some timekeepers may be a powerful emotional reminder of an esteemed person, place, or event. Others the long-searched-for keystone in a valued collection. There are watches that can change your mood and generate a smile just by thinking about them. There are even watches that have […]

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Parmigiani Fleurier Tondagraph GT: A Collector’s View

August 15, 2020/18 Comments/in Highlights, Behind the Lens, Collectors and Collecting, Parmigiani/by GaryG

As these things go, Parmigiani Fleurier and GaryG go back a pretty long way. So it was with significant interest that he took up the opportunity to handle, photograph, and evaluate Parmigiani’s latest introduction, the Tondagraph GT. It’s a relatively rare combination of two useful complications in what the brand calls “all-occasion” packaging, and […]

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