I’m not sure if I am alone to believe in the concept of a “spoiler watch”. Heck, I might even be coining this term since I cannot find any mention of it on the internet pertaining to watch collecting. Spoiler…
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COVID-19 changed everything in 2020. The whole year will likely represent a black mark in the historical timeline for watch collectors (and everyone else too). There was a “normal life” before that year. Then a strange “ new normal” was…
Unless your name is Scrooge McDuck, watch collectors tend to be social creatures. Part of the fun of participating in this hobby is sharing in the excitement of acting like a nerd with like-minded enthusiasts. Who else is going to…
Most watch collectors know what the term hacking means when it comes to setting the time on their watches*. However, this article will not be about that sort of hacking. Instead, it will be more of a rant about malicious…
People collect watches for different reasons. For some, it might be the thrill of having the trendiest watch on Instagram. For others, it could be their cold calculated speculation based on watch values with the intent to make a quick…
I'm about to go out on a long, lonely limb and perhaps open myself up to a virtual mob of watch snobs jeering at me, throwing rotten vegetables and whipping me in the public square. I'm going on record and...
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Do our children really want to inherit the mechanical watch that we want to pass onto them as a family heirloom, or are we just kidding ourselves? This is a subject ripe for discussion.
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…
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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Is the Bronze Watch Trend Really Just a Case of Collective Misplaced Nostalgia? Watch companies who are dabbling in bronze watches often have their creations described as retro or seem to be claiming to "return to the past," but I...
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