Citizen Chronomaster Watches For Unrivaled Reliability Without The Geek Look
The Japanese market gets so much we don’t. Good thing that there are still channels for the US to get most of the goods, even if the instructions aren’t in English. The Citizen Chronomaster is a watch that would never be marketed in the US because the consumer interest would not match the costs of [...]
Increasing Interest In Citizen Campanola Watches
Unlike most watch companies, Citizen has been selling watches in large volumes for sometime and understands the importance of advertising. So when they began to sell their high-end Campanola line of watches, they advertised it in watch magazines and other places interested consumers might have eyes. The Campanola line is vastly different than anything Citizen [...]
Review of the Ocean7 G-2 Chronograph From WatchReport.com
After our review the Ocean7 LM-2, we were anxious to get our hands on more from Ocean7. This time, we thought we’d trying something a little different: the Ocean7 G-2 Dive Chronograph. I’ve always been a sucker for dive chronographs, so I was very pleased when the G-2 showed up at my door.
The H.R. Giger Take On Watches: He Loves Swatch Watches
Though state in 1993, I doubt H.R. Giger has changed the way he feels about watches. “I will wear a Swatch, the real thing, from the cradle to the grave.” Best know for his macabre and dark industrial, future goth design style, Giger is probably most widely known for his design of the alien, in [...]
Citizen Calibre 3100 Watch: Perpetual Calendar With Eco-Drive
While an adoring fan of Citizen’s Campanola line of watches, I must pay attention to the bread and butter of Citizen, which their more mainstream line of watches. During the last few years, they are been evolving the application of their Eco-Drive (light powered) movements by placing them into a classy watches suitable for everyday [...]
Time Relic: Certina Watch Featuring Saddam Hussein On eBay
Here is an interesting and rare find that will likely appeal to collectors of dictator paraphernalia. A Certina brand watch with a happy little picture of the now dead former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein. The Certina brand is controlled by the powerful Swatch Group who is now using Certina as a means of releasing classically [...]
Image Of A Watch Czar: Swatch Group’s Nicolas Hayek With His Wares
Big year for Swatch Group AG, the Swiss giant has reporting above average profits and double-digit growth across the board. Swatch Group owns the watch movement maker ETA, along with a number of brands including Omega, Breguet, Longines, and Glashutte Original. Last year’s profits hovered over $5 billion, certainly amazing given the market and volume [...]
The Sinn U1000 Watch Has Risen From The Depths
Sinn’s new EZM6 diving watch, the U1000 has finally arrived. The watch’s specs have been circulating for a while, but not until now have pictures of the watch been available. The Sinn U1000 should hit retailers in March 2008, and Sinn is obviously going to make the U1000 the highlight of their display at Basel [...]
Breitling Superocean Heritage Chronograph Watch Is Ultimate Aquatic Companion
Breitling recently released the wildly simple yet attractive Superocean Heritage based on diving watch designs from the 1950s. It was a controversial watch as some people failed to see it’s inherent beauty and appeal. Of course, observant enthusiasts noticed that it was just this simplicity that made the Superocean Heritage stand out. Breitlings are know [...]
The Sinn U1000 From WatchReport.com
I’ve written about Sinn watches before, and in particular, their commitment to innovative engineering. Now it looks like they have outdone themselves once again with a new dive chronograph. Meet the Sinn U1000, a mechanical watch waterproof to 1,000 meters (3,300 feet), and available in either steel or PVD black.
Steampunk Art As Wearable Watch
The steampunk revolution continues to churn quietly as more products and crafts are being made in the distinctive motif. Sometimes being called “clockwork” or “Neo-Victorian” the style of using watch gears, movements, leather, bolts, and other implements of industrialization is becoming much more popular. While the steampunk genre has been around for a while, it [...]
Watch Display Case Organizes My Growing Collection
Big Project this weekend. My watch collection was turning into a mire. I had a simple watch case, a couple of watch winders, and an overflowing collection of watches that was organically taking over various parts of my living space. Something had to be done. But what? If you have spent any time looking [...]
Watch Magazines For Your Away From Computer Reading Pleasure
If you are into watches, then you spend a good deal of time online reading about, looking at, or shopping for watches. But you can supplement this time by looking at watch magazines. Yes, there are actually a good number of them. In fact, as watch enthusiasm draws some of the most artistic, mechanical, and [...]
Review of the Nike Amp+ iPod Control Watch From WatchReport.com
The Nike Amp+ isn’t designed to be an all-around running or fitness watch. It’s specifically designed for runners who already have the Nike + iPod kit. Similar to the Timex iControl we recently reviewed, the Nike Amp+ is a remote control for your iPod Nano, however unlike the Timex, the Nike Amp+ uses the existing Nike + iPod gadget that plugs into your iPod, so you’re actually adding the iPod remote control to the Nike iPod system. Allow me to explain…
Rare Blue-Faced Marcello C Nettuno 3 Diver Watch Auction
The Marcello C Nettuno 3 watches are the most popular line from Marcello C, and with good reason. Phenomenal value for the price because you get a watch that is constructed in manner out of its price league. The standard Nettuno 3 line is well under $1000 at about $800 retail at current exchange rates. [...]
Limes Integral Gives Franck Muller Like Tonneau Style: For Sale On eBay
Limes Watch Company hails from popular watch manufacturing Pforzheim Germany. Recently, I discussed Botta Design watches that also have their manufacturing plant in Pforzheim. Limes operates in the typical Teutonic watch making fashion of making high quality watches at relatively low prices. For the design, movement, fit, finish, price, and overall experience, a Swiss [...]
Size Matters: Nothing Special About the Limited Appeal Of The Apple MacBook Air
Yesterday’s Macworld keynote speech by Steve Jobs announced, among other things, the new MacBook Air. The newest in underwhelming computing appliances by Apple provides little innovation. “It is so thin and light!” Yes it is, but at what cost? The whole point of a laptop computer is to be fully functional. It needs to have [...]
The Old World Benzinger Way Of Luxury Watch Production
Watch news is always filled with stories of innovation, exotic materials, new complications, and novel ways of displaying information. While “new” is often exciting, there is something splendidly serene about seeing traditional, as opposed to modern, watch art. There was a time around the turn of the 20th century when watch making went in two [...]
Inexpensive Luxury Orbita Privee RX Watch Winders Available For Beta Test
Orbita is one of a handful of manufacturers of luxury watch winders. Watch winders are devices that wind automatic watches for you while you don’t wear them. Any watch collectors knows what a pain it can be to sit there and make sure all your watches are constantly wounds. Otherwise they stop, and each time [...]
Oceanus Watches On Sale With Free Shipping: Analog Solar Atomic Watches
The Casio Pathfinder series of watches have been around for a few years now. They provide a venerable list of features and sensors along with being solar powered and using radio frequencies from available atomic clocks to stay accurate. The Pathfinder series has been a success in itself, but has never made it too [...]
Review of the Casio G-Shock GW056A-1V from WatchReport.com
I think of the Casio G-Shock GW056A as the G-Shock for people who don’t like G-Shocks. It’s certainly the most subtle and unrecognizable G-Shock currently in the lineup, and most importantly, the slimmest.
Blancpain Saint Valentin 2008 Women’s Watch: Very Nicely Done
Women’s watches usually aren’t given that much attention by watch enthusiasts. They come in two basic varieties, miniature dolled up versions of men’s watches, or some watch richly gilded with jewels. While these watch can be appreciate they are hardly things rich in innovation or novel interest. Typically, much more time is spend on [...]
Customize And Revitalize Your Watch With A New Strap Or Bracelet
Most people cannot do much on their own to customize the watches they own. Changing the hands, or colors are beyond our ability both in expertise and the tools we have available. This can create a problem for the creative among us who really want to make watches “our own.” One effective outlet for creativity [...]
Rare Round-Faced Citizen Campanola Perpetual Calendar On eBay
The key point of interest on a perpetual calendar watch is command of cosmic time. Knowing the date, month, leap year, year, and simply the time, gives the wearer some ethereal sense of reassurance. The funny thing is that you can get most of this information on a $150.00 digital watch, but it really just [...]
Certina DS-1 Watch Goes Back To The Basics, Carrera Style
I know the first think you see when you look at the new Certina DS-1 is the Tag Heuer Carrera. Yes the hands and face look devilshly similar, and the bracelet might as well being out the Tag Heuer parts bin, not the Certina has anything to do with Tag Heuer, corporately speaking that is. [...]
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