I'm about to go out on a long, lonely limb and perhaps open myself up to a virtual mob of watch snobs jeering at me, throwing rotten vegetables and whipping me in the public square. I'm going on record and...
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Vintage can be a relative term in watch collecting circles, but it is rarely used to describe watches made in the 1990s and 2000s. What should I call early watches from a company like Victorinox that only started making timepieces...
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Do our children really want to inherit the mechanical watch that we want to pass onto them as a family heirloom, or are we just kidding ourselves? This is a subject ripe for discussion.
This will be the first year that I will not have my mom to call on Mother’s Day. Both my parents are now passed so these sort of holidays tend to make me nostalgic and reminisce about things that once…
Longtime readers of this blog know how much of a fan I am of Victorinox Swiss Army watches. You could say that I have invested hundreds of hours writing about them and a small fortune purchasing watches made by this...
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It's Alive! My Franken-Watch Lives! Practicallyย everyone knows who Dr. Frankenstein is because books, movies, television shows have embraced his most famous creation... Frankenstein's Monster. Yeah, that giant undead guy with a flat head and electrodes protruding from his neck. Mistakenly,...
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What happened to the Watch Hunter Blog in December 2017? For regular readers of the Watch Hunter blog, it might seem that December was a quiet month. Where I had been averaging one article per week for much of the...
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I’m a sucker for vintage Swiss Army advertising campaigns. Partly it’s because I’m in the world of advertising and corporate communications as a vocation. It is helpful for me to see what some other creative person did in the past….
The Victorinox Swiss Army Watch Identifier on Watch Hunter is a new online reference for Swiss Army watch collectors complete with photos and SKU numbers of many models. Click link above on how to ID your Swiss Army watch It...
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Have you ever bought a used watch but did not receive the manual or user instructions? In many cases, one watch works like another in regards to setting the time or date. You can figure it out with a little…