Shakespeare

Shakespeare
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The Beatles and Their Watches – Part VI: Sir Paul’s Casio

This is the sixth installment of “The Beatles and Their Watches”.  We have previously looked at Patek Philippe , Omega , Bulgari , Hamilton , Bueche G...
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The Beatles and Their Watches - Part V: The Apple Watch

The Apple Boutique was a shop in Marylebone, London at 94 Baker Street (not far from where the fictional Sherlock Holmes allegedly lived). It was open...
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The Beatles and Their Watches - Part IV: Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey, better known to the world as Ringo Starr, was the Beatles' drummer from 1962 to 1970.  Since retiring as a Beatle (at the age of...
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The Beatles and Their Watches - Part III: Cartier & Breitling

Interestingly, in November 1966 the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, appears to have bought himself and George Harrison matching (or almost matching)...
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The Beatles and Their Watches - Part II: The Accurists

All four Beatles appear to have worn 9ct gold Accurist dress watches from the early 1960s.  These were British manufactured mechanical watches with Sw...
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The Beatles and Their Watches - Part I: The Pateks

I love the Beatles and I love watches.  So when the two collide I am always fascinated.  From the cheapest of plastic knockoffs with their faces on th...
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Moser & Cie - Swiss Alp

Does anyone remember this? It was a pretty wild little gem of a watch. Cheeky and fun. The back image of the watch (I didn't take a photo of it) is fr...
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Fears Garrick

I believe the Fears - Garrick (which is a fascinating collaboration between ... wait for it ... Fears and Garrick (two British Watch Makers)) starts t...
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anOrdain Model 2 = in the Wild

This a lovely little field watch out in the field. I got this as a gift from the lovely folks at anOrdain when I helped them pro bono with some legal...
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FP Journe Chronometre & Resonance

There was a time not so long ago that I could walk into a local dealer's shop and try on any of a number of grail watches including this lovely piece....
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