Recipient of the 2023 NAWCC Roberts-Taylor Award for Excellence in the Field of Horological Research. Multiple Title Watch Book Author, Vintage American Military Watch Dealer, Watchmaker.
The very interesting story of Admiral Phelps and his 14k solid gold WWI Waltham Trench Watch. He was the Captain of the USS Leviathan and the USS Ariz...
WWI U.S. Army Surplus Watches Sold to the General Public
104 years ago today! On February 22, 1919 the Elgin "Star Dial" Trench Watches were made available to the general public. A major campaign to sell the...
ROLEX COPIES DEPOLLIER AGAIN!!! Once again a Charles Depollier innovation was copied by Rolex, this time Depollier did it 83 YEARS BEFORE Rolex! In 20...
Yesterday I did a podcast with Timley_Moments (Instagram) and the subject of WWI trench watch case back inscriptions came up. Here are just a few of m...
Book Review, “The Inconvenient Truth about the World’s First Waterproof Watch” by Stan Czubernat
Mr. Bruce Shawkey was kind enough to read and review my latest book. Bruce is the recipient of the NAWCC James W. Gibbs Award for Horological Literary...
Veterans Day, Video of My Favorite American Made Military Watches of WWI
Today we celebrate Veterans Day, honoring all who have served. The bloody fighting of WWI ended 104 years ago today so I've put together this one minu...
Rolex was NOT the World's First Waterproof Watch, US Army Documents Contradict their Story
I've decided to release one of the United States Army documents I found in the United States National Archives pertaining to Charles Depollier waterpr...
What was the "world's first waterproof wrist watch? Many articles have been published recently about this subject and I've seen several social media posts & videos diving into this topic as well....
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