Yeah, the title of this blog is a mouthful, but it is exactly what I intended to say. Months ago, I first wrote about a Longines watch that I “inherited” from my father who inherited it from his father. In…
I have come to realize that I am rarely satisfied with the OEM watch bands that a manufacturer picks when selling a watch. Even if the band is nice, it does not always align with my personal taste. If you…
The Alpnach series of watches by Victorinox Swiss Army was a bit of an acquired taste for me, but once I accepted the design aesthetic, I was hooked. Some people have a real problem with the dial design, but we…
Iย think that it is safe to say that most people envision round dials when they think of clocks or wristwatches. It is by far the most common shape used to represent the circular repetition of the 24-hour calendar event that…
Buddy Luv was an epic character in a movie called “Life”. Just look at that face and you will know that this guy had been through a lot. He is wearing a rare Swiss Army Seaplane XL mechanical watch. He…
Sometimes good things can drop right into one’s lap when least expected. This is what happened when Ben, a good buddy of mine, generously gave me a vintage watch with a curious history including a last minute rescue from the…
It has been said that some people look at the world through rose colored glasses, but what if the saying used a different color of glass like amber? Watch designers from Victorinox (Swiss Army) might have asked that question back…
A few weekends ago, I attended a traveling watch show hosted by Watchbuys.com, an excellent North American distributor of several fine German watch brands. I did not know what to expect since I had never been to a private watch…
Every now and then a brand does something unexpected by reaching outside of their comfort zone to create a product that is unlike anything that they made before or since. That is the enigma that the Legacy Reserve de Marche…
