Lemania 5100 automatic chronograph Aeons ago in the early 1970s there was a legendary watch movement known as the Lemania 5100. The history of this beloved caliber is impressive until it met its quiet demise in the late 1990s. What...
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Imagine my wonder when I saw the bright red dial on a Japanese Limitedย Edition Victorinox Swiss Army Night Vision 2 on eBay. It looked similar to the regular Night Vision 2 in black, but the red dial kicks the “wow…
By now you might have figured out that I love to collect Victorinox Swiss Army watches, especially their limited editions. If you are not convinced, just flip through the blog to see all of the models that I have written…
A funny phenomenon happens with watch collectors. We often go through cycles deciding whether we LOVE a watch or just LIKE a watch. It can take time to “gel” with a watch and this process is not always immediate. After…
Truth be told, I started this article many years ago but never finished it. “Better late than never” is my motto, and the Victorinox Swiss Army Airboss Mach 8 is worth reminiscing about, even if I traded it for another…
Many Victorinox Swiss Army watch collectors mightย be surprised to learn that there was another limited edition watch besides the Power Gauge LE in the Airboss Mach 6 family of chronographs from the mid-2000s. Predictably, this other one was called theย Airboss...
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Every once in a while, a watch manufacturer creates a watch that is so outrageous, that even many years later, it is remembered with great fondness. Victorinox Swiss Army did such a thing in 2008 when they released "the baddestย Airboss...
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The first thing that attracted me to the Swiss Air Force G-400 Professional was its good looks. I am a sucker for pilot chronographs, and I appreciate the juggling act that wristย watch designers have to perform to make all the…
In case you cannot tell, Victorinox Swiss Army Odyssey Extreme Chronographs are plastic watches, and they will likely outlast all of us considering that this material can survive for thousands of years. I wonder what future alien archeologists will think…
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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