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…
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There are certain watches that I have always admired from afar, but never actually owned. I have watch collecting friends that have a wide range of timepieces that they have acquired, and I can often live adventurously through their buying...
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For those of you who might ask if I was on hallucinogens when I made this video, the answer is no. I was just sitting in what I call the psychedelicย car wash located just down the street from my house….
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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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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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….