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…
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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...
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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…
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…
Most watch collectors know what the term hacking means when it comes to setting the time on their watches*. However, this article will not be about that sort of hacking. Instead, it will be more of a rant about malicious…
If you own a JDM Seiko watch, then it likely uses Japanese kanji script for the DAY-OF-WEEK complication. While many English-speakers choose the English DAY-OF-WEEK setting for practicalitty, some watch wearers like the authentic look of the Japanese pictographic symbols...
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It's funny how memory works. It seems that the older I get, the foggier the specifics become about the places and things that I have done in my life. Perhaps I have a case of early senility or maybe I just...
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People collect watches for different reasons. For some, it might be the thrill of having the trendiest watch on Instagram. For others, it could be their cold calculated speculation based on watch values with the intent to make a quick…
You’re probably wondering “What do a bunch of baseball caps branded with watch manufacturer logos on them have to do with watch collecting? Aren’t the timepieces really what people are interested in and not these other items?” Like any other…
Perhaps, it is written somewhere that "what watch manufacturers giveth, Aarons Winters can taketh away"... or at least that is what I thought when I came across his ad for PVD Removal Service on eBay. This service is not something...
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