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The occasional oddball
While most car brand-related watches - apart from Porsche's affiliation with IWC and some other exceptions to the rule - are disposable, cheap fashion...
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GO SeaQ homage ✔️ New on-the-fly adjustable clasp ✔️ San Martin ✔️
While not at all opposed to homages, my interests have shifted lately. However, I thought that this new drop by San Martin (37mm case with 38mm bezel...
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The Maen Brooklyn 36 (or: the "Month-Day-Date")
I am not trigger-happy when it comes to purchasing watches, but when swedish-dutch microbrand Maen announced the Manhattan 37 last year, I couldn't re...
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My problem exactly. Cartier could at least come up with a Medium Date, if not re-issue the Galbee altogether.
Lorier, Vario, Lorca, Kurono Tokyo and Baltic speak to me the most. Honorable mention: Jody's brand Erebus seems to be a great value proposition.
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True or False? You can dress up a tool watch, but you can’t dress down a dress watch.
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What we're calling "dress watches" today used to be referred to as "watches" back in the day. No matter whether you wore them with a suit or a sweater.
Exactly. I love this entertaining mix of overwhelming, underwhelming, whelming and bat-shit crazy that's WaW. 👍
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The Art in Deco: Maen Manhattan 37 review
The Moment this watch popped up on Caseback Watches' Insta , I was intrigued. As the previews and first looks at the prototypes started trickling in,...
Maen Manhattan 37
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Battle of the entry level luxury rectangular dress watches
Frederique Constant are about to release their updated take on the tank-ish (gondolo-ish?) dress watch. Since FC kind of (albeit not in every regard) competes with Oris in terms of market segment, thi...
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New Bremont "Bremoak"
This just dropped. I don't mind the Northflag-esque power reserve indicator; I actually think it's kind of cool. But that (almost) 1:1 copy of the Roy...
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The fluidity factor or: The melting viscosity coefficient
One of the great pleasures in our hobby is that no matter through how many pictures of a watch you scroll, how precisely diameter, lug-to-lug and heig...
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Watches that kind of look like things
Not talking about the obvious candidates like the Joker watch or the AP Black Panther. But, c'mon, this one is really "spoiling us, Mr Ambassador": An...
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The ideal watch size survey 2022-2023
A few years ago, Mark Cho, avid watch collector and owner of Hong Kong and New York-based menswear emporium The Armoury, noticed that the majority of...
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