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This is the story of how a special watch became a larger symbol of community and giving for an Atlanta Chapter of RedBar, Nodus and the Atlanta Community Food Bank. The RedBar organization certainly needs little introduction for people in…
Maybe I had become complacent in discovering new podcasts during the 2020-21 Covid-19 worldwide pandemic. Like many others, I was working from my home. This meant that I was not commuting, which had historically been the best time for me…
Of all the watches appearing on the Watch Hunter website, the one that I seem to get the most inquiries about is the famous Victorinox Swiss Army Infantry Vintage Jubilee Chronograph Limited Edition from 2009. I affectionately call this one the…
Being a member of the Red Bar Group has granted me access to people that I might never have bumped into on the street. While watch collecting is becoming more mainstream these days, I have seldom met true watch scholars…
It is always a joy to see an old friend. In this case, I recently spotted a rare Victorinox Swiss Army Solar Compass Limited Edition for sale on eBay. This watch made the top 10 rarest Swiss Army watch list…
The Formotion N-Wave Watch Chronograph is back! Several years ago, I wrote about a cult classic watch known as the Formotion N-Wave. This was a limited-production watch released by Formotion, a custom gauge and accessory manufacturer located in California. With…
I can’t believe it took me this long to write about the Victorinox Swiss Army Airboss Mach 3. I consider these standout chronos to be cornerstone pieces for any collector of Swiss Army watches. The Airboss Mach 3s were quartz-driven…
I'm not sure if I am alone to believe in the concept of a "spoiler watch". Heck, I might even be coining this term since I cannot find any mention of it on the internet pertaining to watch collecting. Spoiler…
Long before I owned a Tudor North Flag, I had a second generation Victorinox Swiss Army Night Vision. I loved this watch’s bold case design with an integrated bracelet. It was like nothing I had seen before, until several years…
In a new Watch Hunter series, “LIKE THIS? BUY THAT”, budget-friendly watches will be compared to more expensive models from well-known manufacturers. It’s like saying “if you cannot own THIS watch right now, then THAT watch might work as a…
COVID-19 changed everything in 2020. The whole year will likely represent a black mark in the historical timeline for watch collectors (and everyone else too). There was a “normal life” before that year. Then a strange “ new normal” was…
Some journeys take years to start and perhaps even longer to finish. This best describes the design and production of a set of new aviator-style watches from a fledgling watch company with the unique name of BYOP. Introducing BYOP Watches…
This is not supposed to happen. Watches like the Victorinox Swiss Army Airboss Mach 9 "Air Force One" Squadron Limited Edition are meant to be seen only by the exclusive group of professionals who ordered them for their squadron. They are practically…
I've written about rare limited edition watches on this site before. To be honest, I have a weakness for them. I think that many watch collectors feel the same way. Maybe we just like to have timepieces that are unique.…
Unless your name is Scrooge McDuck, watch collectors tend to be social creatures. Part of the fun of participating in this hobby is sharing in the excitement of acting like a nerd with like-minded enthusiasts. Who else is going to…
If anyone reading this post from the future does not remember what the first few months of 2020 were like, the world was under a major pandemic with the Coronavirus, aka COVID-19. This horrific situation left many of us in…
It's not often that I see a Victorinox Swiss Army watch that I don't recognize on eBay. After all, I spent months cataloging most of the brand's wristwatch designs to make the Victorinox Swiss Army Watch Identifier Tool. However, I had…
Like the branches of the armed forces, different watches seem to be made specifically for air, sea or land. There are Flieger watches for pilots. There are dive watches for sailors. And for the grunts, there are so-called field watches.…
No time for shaving. It has been said that "when it rains, it pours". This has been true for me in the last quarter of 2019. This is when the activity in my life went from a steady shower to…
When it comes to Victorinox Swiss Army watches, it's the limited edition models that usually excite me the most. Maybe it's the collector bug in me that craves timepieces that are rare and exclusive. "LE" watches are produced in ultra…
I'll be the first to admit that I am not a Rolex owner...yet. That is something that I will have to work up to... like eating caviar. While some people may think that makes me unqualified to review The Vintage…
Why is it that so many blue watches seem to automatically get the nickname Smurf? Could it be that the people who can afford expensive watches today once wasted their Saturday mornings in the 1980s viewing cartoons about a village of…
As a watch blogger located in the southern United States, it is my gentlemanly duty to inform you of the new Tenn & Two Podcast from this often-overlooked region. Everyone knows that the hot spots for watch collecting seem to be…
Until a few months ago, I thought I knew everything that there was to know about the Hunter family of watches created by Victorinox Swiss Army in the early 2000s. I had already written six articles about the Hunter Mach…