The Watch Hunter Blog tries to review watchesย in a fair and balanced way. The watch reviews are just my opinions and I invite you to read them with an open mind. I also encourage you to seek out the watches for yourself and make your decisions about them because everyone has different tastes. If you have a question that you want to be answered or a watch that you would like reviewed, pleaseย contact me.
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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The Lancer 200 is a Dive Watch with a Coin-Edge Bezel and Unique 3-D Pentagonal Markers Some readers may wonder why I am referencing American baseball's "Home Plate" in the title of an article about a Swiss Made watch. It...
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At the risk of sounding like a philistine, I am going to share a hair-raising story of how I had to take a hacksaw to the watchband of a newly traded Tudor Heritage Black Bay watch. This tale is not...
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Long-time readers of the Watch Hunter Blog, already know that I have a soft spot for watches made by Lum-Tec, the Ohio-based watch manufacturer. This is because Lum-Tec offers tremendous value for high-quality watches with stellar lume characteristics. Their way...
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Intricate engraving has alwaysย fascinated me everย since I visited a history museum containing fancy armor and guns from hundreds of years ago. A perfectlyย normal firearm could be transformed intoย a work-of-artย usingย chisels, a hammer, andย nerves of steel. It is amazing that much of…
Let me start by saying that I probably spend too much time looking at watches on eBay. It is my happy hunting ground to find weird and wonderful watches. The watch in today's article fits both of those descriptions. Despite...
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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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This will be the first Fortis watch to appear on the Watch Hunter site. I have always wanted to own a Fortis ever since I learned about the Cosmonaut watches that they produced back in the 1990s. Those Cosmonaut watches...
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