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The perils of vintage #381
I broke a watchmaker. This man had done good work for me for the better part of a decade and he is hanging up his loupe. He told me that at 70 his eye...
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I love and hate this watch in equal measure. I love the Space 1999 vibe, but not much else.
Lucerne is a bit of a trick bag as brands go. Because it is a place name it could not be trademarked in Switzerland. Many smaller Swiss companies would slap "Lucerne" on a dial to dump cheap watches on the market. There also seems to have been a U.S. assembleur in New York in the 1960's and 70's that would case Swiss movements and sell them in department stores. Something that sounded Swiss sold well (still does). There are a lot of Lucerne watches out there from pin pallets to watches with decent movements.
Most people have a hard time identifying the watch that their wife bought them for Father's Day. You can write a 4500 word exegesis on all of the watches that you saw at lunch. ("I could tell by his full grain Italian leather shoes that he was the sort of banker that only worked until his second martini of the day. I looked for the tell-tale signs of a PP Calatrava, and sure enough the little glint of gold under his cuff gave it away. From its size I knew it to be from the 1970's...") I agree. I like the long form.
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Welsbro: The Quiet American
When I buy a vintage watch I normally do a deep dive on the company and model (if I can) to place the watch into it's proper historical perspective. T...
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Poll: Did It Exist?
Polls are the way of the future. Polls are what people want. Polls got what plants crave. The Quartz Crisis (or Revolution, if you are Seiko) knocked out hundreds of small Swiss brands. Three of these...
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Polls: Hate 'em or Just Plain Don't Like 'em
WatchCrunch is always tweaking the site and adding improvements. A few months back they added the "Poll" feature that allowed us to ask questions and get statistical results. Many people like posting...
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Pook Watches: Nitrogen I, the unnecessary Aurelian review
Nostalgia is a powerful force. It originally described the homesickness of soldiers and was thought of as a disease, something to be overcome. Later,...
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Bad Influences on Watch Crunch
This looks to be my last new old watch, and my penultimate watch of 2022. (I technically have another in transit but it will be my first of 2023.) Thi...
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