Graham
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What’s with Rolex - is it terminal?
Passed through Heathrow airport over the weekend (I don’t fly very often - thankfully) and, killing time, I took the opportunity to visit the two main...
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Oh Happy Day!
A local jeweller has just started display stocking GS. Previously I had to go miles to see them. Went in for a brief chat as they have only had them f...
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The Jaguar XJ220 of the watch world? - stunning design but flawed execution
The XJ220 is remembered more as the car that it could have been than the car it actually was. Conceived in the early 1980s as a 220 mph V12 supercar...
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To those of you who own a watch with a black coating over the steel, how do you feel about your purchase now?
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Those that I have are inexpensive but I don’t think I would ever opt for a premium watch with such a finish.
I thought this was interesting as the watch movement itself isn’t that special and, though the case itself is gold, absent the Titanic provenance the watch would sell for c.$2k-$3k.
So as a trophy asset someone has happily paid an enormous premium just to own this one of a kind pocket watch.
My regrets mostly relate to pre-orders and Kickstarters.
I have learned my lesson and killed them off now.
There are enough great watches out there not to get involved in that kind of misery.
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Old watch and young-ish whisky
One for Daniel @timely_moments - trying to get a whisky to match the watch dial isn’t easy!
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Abalone dials - inevitably disappointing?
This came up on WRUW but I thought it might be worth a general post. Firstly I love abalone dial watches or rather I love the abalone dial watches sh...
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Lightly wound watches running really fast!
So I tend to wear a number of watches on rotation rarely wearing a watch for more than a day or two. Usually when I pick up and set an automatic watch...
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Snoopy MoonSwatch !
Okay so not my favourite set of releases but I know there are lots of Crunchers who are mad for them … https://www.watchpro.com/spoiler-alert-swatch-s...
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Golden geese … ?
Given the money grabs in the industry like the MoonSwatch fiasco the two biggest mysteries in the modern watch world - for me - are as follows: Why do...
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