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I've worn a watch for as long as I can remember, but I didn't become interested in watches until 2018, when I bought my first decent mechanical watch. Shortly after purchasing it, I joined a local watch enthusiasts group, and have since grown my collection quite considerably.
My focus is on mechanical watches (especially chronographs), but I can also appreciate quartz watches as well.
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Over winding an automatic watch
When winding a manual wind mechanical watch, it's easy to know when the watch has been fully wound by the resistance, however with an automatic, that'...
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How important is legibility?
The first mechanical watch I purchased when I started collecting had a silver dial, with white gold hands. Under the bright lighting at the AD, the wa...
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Screw down chronograph pushers
I just recently added an 11th chronograph to my collection, a Seiko SNA411 which features screw down chronograph pushers, similar to those used on the...
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How important is the accuracy of your watch to you?
I'm curious as to how people view the importance of accuracy in their watches, particularly with mechanical watches. I have absolutely no need to know...
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Quirky and unusual watches
Does anyone else buy watches simply because they have some quirky or unusual aspect to them? A few years ago, before I had any serious interest in wat...
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Watches under UV light
I have a small UV flashlight that I use to charge the lume on my watches. I had noticed that whenever I used it to charge my Sinn 303, the red chrono...
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What's your favorite case shape?
Without a doubt, the most common case shape for watches is the basic round shape. While there is probably good reason for that, I find myself drawn to...
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How important is the collector community to brands & retailers??
While the watch enthusiast/collector community appears to be fairly large, it is really quite small when taken as a percentage of the general populat...
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Rolex or Omega
When I first started collecting watches, I had a pre-conceived idea that Rolex watches were "better" than similar models from Omega. In the three year...
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