Recently, a vintage Swiss Army watch that defies logic has been popping up in my eBay searches. At first glance, the Victorinox Swiss Army 9G-500 Automatic seems to be a standard 3-hand pilot style watch. It is only when we look…
From the annals of history, a “lancer” is a cavalryman on horseback who is armed with a giant spear known as a lance. Think of them as the fast-moving attack force that often could change the tide of a battle….
When I first started writing this article about the wonderful vintage Swiss Army Cavalry Chronograph watches by Victorinox, I had visions of old-timey U.S. Cavalry charges, dust clouds, rattling sabers, bugles, and horses galloping as I remembered from the Westerns…
Earlier this year, I bought a big batch of watches to resell. Inside the lot, was a mixed bag of quartz watches in different conditions. Some were keepers, some were flippers and others were complete garbage. One of these broken…
Watch collectors use all kinds of oddball nicknames to describe popular watches to other people. For instance, many collectors will know exactly what I mean if I say that I just bought a Seiko Turtle, or Sumo, or Tuna, or…
