Watch reviews, comment – and more!
I do confess a liking of brands that have an interesting story to tell. Panerai, with origins back to WW2 (and before) when they produced their large and robust Radiomir watch for divers of the Royal Italian Navy, is an obvious candidate. However, for me, that was not always the …
Have you ever wondered how a watch is made or who makes the components? For me, to be frank, such questions never really crossed my mind – at least for many years. As long as I liked the appearance of a watch, it did what I wanted and I could …
I had been interested in acquiring the above noted watch for a few years, but to date had not seen one for sale of suitable quality. The main issue appeared to be with the bezel, whose numbers and markers are picked out in red – but in most cases were …
I was recently in Switzerland to visit some atelier manufactures in the watch making region near Neuchatel. This was both fascinating and impressive and I will be writing separately about this in due course. During my trip I added some extra days, and on one of these returned to Geneva …
A year or so ago I had read a small article somewhere about an astonishing tale of sunken treasure. No, not gold doubloons and silver salvers from a Spanish galleon, but old leather in a shipwreck off Cornwall. Briefly, the 53 ton Brigantine, Frau Metta Catherina, from Flensburg (then in …
Some 10 years plus ago, and before I really got more seriously into watches, I knew very little about B&R. If I am being honest, at one point I thought they were an also-ran US make! My education however has mercifully since improved! So, in fact the company is actually …
I had known about George Cleverley & Co Ltd, the London bespoke shoemaker, for some time. However I had thought that their wares would really be beyond my fiscal means. Last year though I had read some articles about them in a couple of “lifestyle” magazines, piquing my interest. This …
As mentioned elsewhere, I have a fondness for chronographs and in particular IWC offerings. One reason for this is that my first “expensive” watch was a Der Flieger Chronograph (reference 3741) back in 2000. This is a baby at only 36mm and is also quartz – one of the last …
I will admit to being fond of chronographs! I am though not alone in this penchant, and I think to be fair most men have a weakness for this particular genre, with their dials, buttons and so on. OK, like most folks I barely use the stopwatch feature, but back …
I have been interested in watches for a long time, but only collected seriously in the past 10 years or so. Over the years, I could not fail to notice the prominent and beautifully presented Patek Philippe adverts in the media. The watches, whilst impressive, were almost an understudy to …
