David
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Before the flood…
Torrential rains are about to hit Los Angeles so we can pretend we finally have a use-case for all those 200m divers!
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Time to give up on watch genres?
Been thinking about how obsessed the hobby is with outdated notions of a watch's genre category and how often a watch is judged by how closely it hews...
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Finally found one!
A meant-to-be score at a vintage shop outside Kansas City: A 1969 (November, per the serial number lookup) Speedtimer notch-case/resist Cevert on the...
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Like father like son (but hopefully not TOO much)
My boy got the Seiko 5 One Piece “Zoro” watch for Christmas and, for a kid who never understood why I wear a watch at all, he loves it. I even caught...
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Traveling with a watch
If you have a few watches, traveling with one can be a great stress-test to judge its quality, accuracy,versatility, and comfort. I’m so impressed wit...
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The Vintage Dilemma
Once again, I had to take this watch in for a fix. This time, one of the pushers launched off of the case and had to be re-set with a new spring. Othe...
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A friendly reminder from Snoopy & Woodstock
We get really riled up over some pretty stupid things, spend absurd amounts of money on objects we know in our hearts shouldn't cost nearly as much as...
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The great sell-off continues... Zenith & Grand Seiko!
I've been actively rethinking my collection and where I find joy in this hobby, and it's moved me to put two of my former "grail" watches up for sale....
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Another "problematic" Seiko 6R movement...
...that a strip-mall watch shop was able to bring within 2-seconds/day accuracy. So my love of this design and the mind-bogglingly sharp finishing of...
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