A fair number of years ago when the number of my automatic watches reached two, I decided to get a watch winder. Well, it was not quite like that as I had bought a new watch from a national retailer and they threw one in. It was an innocuous cube …
Hot off the production line and hitting the shops is the new Defy Classic Carbon from Zenith. I had got wind of this piece a little while ago, but noticed this week in one of my local retailers so decided to take a closer look. Zenith is one of the …
It takes a hell of a lot of effort, guts and some luck to get a watch brand going. More impressive was to do so in the late 1990s in the UK, where frankly there was almost no watch production left. This however is precisely what Nick and Giles English …
I will not reprise how I came to review this Mühle piece, as I outlined the genesis of this in the review of the MeisterSinger Astroscope a little earlier. Suffice to say that upon enquiring over any new releases, this 29er Casual came to the surface and at first glance …
I probably came across MeisterSinger some five years ago when my consumption of watch material increased. To be frank, I was not that interested as I found the one-handed aspect bit of a gimmick. How could one possibly tell the time properly? So, I dismissed the watches as somewhat of …
I am including this watch in the “New Watch” section as although it has been out for a while now, it is still available. If memory serves me, I think I first saw sight of this piece a few years ago in the now regrettably defunct QP magazine. So, proof …
In these times of restricted mobility, access to new watches in person is almost nil. As such, and to keep things ticking over, I am just looking at some watches in my collection. In this case my selected piece is still in production so I am categorising as “new” for …
In the past few years I have been warming to many of Seiko’s offerings – including the prestige end of Grand Seiko and Credor. Like many folks I had previously and perhaps unfairly consigned the brand to the also-ran bin – possibly due to the vast quantities of cheap quartz …
I will admit to being a hard person to please! Most things I query, moan, criticise and frown over. I just can’t help it. I suppose it is just in my nature to strive for perfection in a world that increasingly settles for second best. Unsurprisingly, my angst flows into …
The official Chopard press release states that this new model is a reinterpretation the St Moritz piece, launched in 1980 and created by Karl-Friedrich Scheafele, now co-president of the Maison. There are certainly similarities, both being basically steel sports watches and having exposed screw heads around the bezel. From a …
