Watch reviews, comment – and more!
I recently – and somewhat reluctantly, attained a milestone birthday of six decades. Mentally I do not feel this age, but physically a little less so. As a result of this achievement my son decided to push the boat out and bought me some really nice gifts. Included was a …
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 …
As readers may have observed, things have been very quiet here of late. So, a little explanation and updating may be apposite. To be frank, my main job got really busy in August with ensuing partner retirement. The upshot being that we decided to wind-down (sorry) the business. I will …
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 think my first tobacco experience was at age 14 or so, behind the tennis courts of my school boarding house. This had once been a lovely Victorian gentlemen’s residence, and over the years the school had gradually subsumed a variety of such properties bordering their land as and when …
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 …
Longines is a very well-known watch name to most people – both aficionados and the public. It is an old brand, commencing in 1832 by Auguste Agassiz, who opened a watch comptoir (business) in Saint-Emier in the Jura region of Switzerland. The name Longines in French means “long meadow” – …
I mentioned in a previous article about the benefit of my GR (gut reaction) technique when first seeing a watch – or anything else I am interested in for that matter. In a little more detail, the process usually involves scanning a sale site and monitoring my reaction to items …
