Illuminatingwatches

Illuminating Watches
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Moon Watches - A History

Moon phase - is it lunacy? Tidal displays useful or eclipsed by other more relevant complications? Get ready to be moonstruck and gain some appreciati...
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Watches of the 14 Peaks: Its not just Rolex!

Welcome to this Everest sized special post from Makalu-minating watches where we fall deep into the crevasse of mountaineering watches where precision...
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Super Antarctic

Super hyped to receive delivery of my Nivada Grenchen super Antarctic with Matt brown dial on the beads of rice bracelet. Yes it’s very Rolex explorer...
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Enicar: Your Sherpa Guide to an Amazing Vintage Watch Brand

Enicar's story began in 1897 when Ariste Racine's parents established a workshop in Lengnau, Switzerland, producing cylinder escapement watches. After...
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Lip: The Most Underrated Watch Brand

In all my research on this channel - one brand keeps re-appearing as an influence : Lip. This French based watch manufacturer from Besancon has an ama...
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Greatest Digital Watch Hits of the 80s

80s digital watches has been a favourite of my viewers, so to celebrate 5k subscribers I thought doing a broader review of the whole period of 80s dig...
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The Untold Story of Seiko’s other Digitals : Pulsar, Alba and Lorus

The Pulsar Time Computer was the first electronic digital watch available in 1972, but its acquisition by Seiko in 1979 marked the downfall of the dig...
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Omega Equinoxe : Their answer to the JLC Reverso

Very excited that the Omega Equinoxe I ordered very recently off eBay arrived a day early.  Had to share a quick look at the watch - which will be fea...

Omega Equinoxe: Their answer to the JLC Reverso? #shorts

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CASIO WATCHES: 50 Years of Casio Watch Highlights in 10 Minutes

New video up on my channel! Yes I know I'm cheating to get to 50 years as the casiotron came out in 1974, but it was commissioned in 1972, so its tota...
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RICOH WATCHES - How a camera company tried to take on Seiko and Citizen

Ricoh is commonly known today for Cameras, and we likely associate them with things like photocopiers and fax machines.  But Ricoh has a surprisingly...
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