sagebrush

sagebrush
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6.50” / 16.51 cm Wrist
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Finally got the hair out of my 5KX

I love my 5KX very much, but it came from Malaysia with something unwelcome stuck to the rotor. I forget how I initially worked up the nerve, but the...
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NWA: I just want a cheap moonphase 🌝

I don't want high complication. I just want moonphase. So here's Baltany, one of the better AliExpress brands, with a design that's not overtly unorig...
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The Red East vs. The Wild West

I didn't believe that this kitschy southwestern strap would actually go with my bronze Seagull 1963, but I'm glad to be wrong. Barton leather straps s...
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Yard sale score - bunch of hand-winders for $5 each

I've been hunting for cheap vintage watches to disassemble and it looks like this is it!! My Geiger counter says that the Le Roy is hot, so I think I'...
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Rainbow Month 2023

It's June and that means everybody is now required to buy products from the companies with the most multicoloured logos. Sorry, I don't make the rules...
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Not brave enough to post a pocket watch in WRUW

I know. Not everyone swings this way. But I've always kind of wanted a pocket watch. You can buy them new, but they get pretty expensive because let's...
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My newly modded 5KX

I love my orange 5KX. But way back in April, I scratched my bezel insert in a tragic dual wristing accident. Could I have sucked it up and dealt with...
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New release: San Martin Railmaster (SN0113)

Here's an interesting new product from one of AliExpress' leading brands. I love the look of the Railmaster, but just liking a dial is not worth $8,00...
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Where have you been? Seiko Alpinist SPB245

I have another secondhand Japanese import to report. Here's the long and short of it: I'm putting together a dial colour collection and I need green....
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Reverse-engineering the Omega cursive script

I complain about bad typography a lot - it is my biggest watch pet peeve and almost every company has produced a few terrible offenders in its time. B...
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