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...
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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…
A gold watch is not a timepiece that I aspire to wear every day, but sometimes I wear one when I feel nostalgic for the ’90s. Gold has long been a symbol of opulence, wealth, privilege and maybe gaudiness when…
I have to tip my hat to Victorinox Swiss Army. They took a chance with the design of their outlandish Swiss Air Force Headquarters GMT watch, and came up with an extremely bold design. This watch could be the black sheep…
Historically speaking, aluminum is not usually the first material that is chosen to make wristwatches, but Victorinox Swiss Army picked this alloy for their series of Centurion watches. Both the use of this metal and the design of these quartz wristwatches might…
Before Victorinox Swiss Army created their wonderful Dive Master 500 series of watches, they made a battery-powered dive watch named the Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master 300. These often overlooked, but highly collectible watches might be considered Swiss Army's first true...
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A perpetual calendar is often regarded as one of the top complications for makers of mechanical watches. They are notoriously difficult to engineer and produce. The high cost to own one of these geared marvels puts it out of reach for…
Some watches are worth writing about more than once. The Victorinox Swiss Army 2006 Legacy Réserve de Marche Platine Limited Edition watch has already appeared on the Watch Hunter web site. Check out the previous article MEET THE WATCH: Victorinox Swiss…
When I first saw the auction on eBay, I was not sure that I was looking at the special watch that I wanted it to be. I had hoped that the listing was the rare, limited edition Swiss Army watch…