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James
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Seattle, WA, USA
6.00” / 15.24 cm Wrist
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Rolex Chronergy vs Omega Coaxial - real world out of box precision?

Both the Chronergy and Coaxial escapements are a marvel — modern mass-industrial productions of what were previously one-off discoveries of optimizing...
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PFAS (“forever chemical”) free watches?

A couple of you were confused earlier when I alluded to picking watches without “forever chemicals”. So I thought I should explain. It’s about epilame...
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Baltic Hermetique’s block lume indices

I know I posted about the Hermetique yesterday, but when I saw what the 3D lume I just had to rave a tiny bit more about this dial. The combination of...
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Recent Comments

commented on Looking for dive watches for very small wrist ·

Nope, that’s a 46mm lug to lug

commented on Looking for dive watches for very small wrist ·

Tissot Seastar 1000 in 36mm. Also, despite it not being well advertised, it has a +-10s/year HAQ movement.

commented on Cartier Class is Truly Timeless ·

Dial clutter.

commented on On a clock or watch, how often do the hour and minute hands align? ·

It is one of the above

commented on Should Everyone have a Quartz in their Life? ·

Something far more accurate than a radio-controlled clock: a GPS-disciplined silicon MEMS OCXO (oven-controlled oscillator)

commented on Do we have a WatchCrunch Echo Chamber? ·

Do you have a labelled inset of the smaller brands so we can see that bottom corner?

(Or alternatively putting both axes on a log-log so we can uncompress the dynamic range)

commented on Random perhaps dumb question for my fellow WCers: What is the length of a 16mm width GS Buckle? ·

WatchCrunch: microadjust microadjust microadjust we demand tooless microadjust to every 1mm

Also WatchCrunch: how dare you ask for the length of a buckle, how could that possibly be important

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Baltic really exceeds expectations!

The blue Hermetique Tourer arrived today and wow, it really exceeded my expectations. This is my first Baltic and I wasn’t sure of a couple things, in...
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