New Steampunk Watch Direction: Asymmetry, Big Gears: New Items From Olga Clock Works
It’s been a while since I covered new work from one of my favorite watch and clock artists; Olga Narozhna (click to visit her site). I wrote an at length article about her here. Among her many fine efforts, she offers really interesting steampunk watch creations, that if you are lucky, she sells on eBay. [...]
Amusing Look At Fake Watch Store Watches-brand.com; Worth The Look For The Laughs
When did Citizen watches start to become the target of fakes? Its true. I first learned that Watches-brand.com was selling fake Citizen Campanola watches, such as the Grand Complication. This sort of makes sense as the watches are all above $2000 and feature quartz movements. But then I learned that they didn’t stop there. They [...]
Easy Looking At The Easy Diver, Dive Watch Series By Roger Dubuis
On a few instances I have dedicated discussion to the world of luxury diving watches. To some, it seems a contradiction, why imbue a tool meant to be exposed to harsh elements with a luxury facade? To others, it seems like the perfect combination of things they love. I fall into this latter category. The [...]
Portero.com Mini Review: Mediorce Used Watch Retailer Disguised As An Auction Site
As though I needed any reason to keep on using eBay, my experience with Portero.com does just that. eBay has a very good thing going on. Last I checked, it is the 9th most visited website in the United States, and on the watch front, enjoys an impressive volume of inventory daily. The auction method [...]
Tag Heuer Meridiist Mobile Phone Is Official: Costs More Than Your Tag Watch, Watch Out Vertu
This could be an answer to a question the market did not ask, or it could be a great device that is (economically) ahead of its time. When Vertu came out with their ultra-high end phones, the mobile phone enthusiast world scoffed. A) why pay so much money for a phone that is going [...]
Shared Sentiment On Online Watch Sales And Manufacturer Internet Presence
While it is by no means a complete discussion of the large topic that is the internet and the watch loving/selling community, there is an excellent article on Fratell0watches.com (linked to Watch Freaks) on the topic of “Web 2.0 and horology.” The idea seems to be that watch makers (of course not all of them [...]
Tax Season Sale From Marcello C. Watches: 10-15% Off New Marcello C. Watches From The Source
Funny enough, there was another Marcello C. watch sale I posted about recently. Just after mentioning how rare such sales are, another one pops up, and straight from the US distributor; Marcelloc-watches.com. In the month of April, you can get 10% off any single watch, and 15% off two or more watches! That is a [...]
Another Comment About Timezone.com; TZ-UK.com Sets Itself Apart
I wrote an article about the unfair and biased moderation tactics are Timezone.com because I wanted watch enthusiasts to understand how Timezone.com was being operated and managed. The aBlogtoRead.com article on Timezone.com can be viewed here. The response to the article was overwhelmingly in agreement with me, even though I actually anticipated some lash bask, [...]
Customized And Personalized Watches Made To Order At 121time.com: Cool In Concept And Execution
While there are a number of watch personalizers out there, most of them sacrifice quality for flexibility. Most of those corporate branded watches with a logo on the face, or engraving on the back are usually barely worth wearing, and novelty gifts at best. But it does not have to be that way. It is [...]
New Logo Takes aBlogtoRead.com In The Right Direction
You have no doubt recognized the new aBlogtoRead.com logo which is proudly displayed. The result of much effort and a joint collaboration with a professional designer; I am proud to have a great looking logo. Designing a logo is very tough work. There are endless directions to go in, and even the most [...]
Timezone.com Forums Guilty Of Indiscriminate Banning Of Members, Censorship, And Parlaying To Advertisers; Effectively Anti-User
Timezone.com and Watchnet.com are watch information related forums now owned by popular watch and clock auction house Antiquroum. Most online watch information forums present areas of watch discussion, brand and news talk, and sales forums for buyers and sellers alike. The concept is brilliant and effective. A relatively low maintenance system providing for a rich [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Weary About Buying A Watch Sight Unseen Online? Photoshop It To Your Wrist!
All the time we spend looking at watches online will never give us a clear indication of how a watch is going to look on our wrist, which is one of the most important factors in buying a watch. Several times I have nervously opened up a watch box to see the new watch I’ve [...]
Want One Location For Watch Information? Not Much Out There
Like some of you, I spend a good deal of time perusing websites for watch information. Be it pricing information, reviews, or just a place that I just learn about new watches, there does not seem to be one place, or even a few places to go where I can find a good collection of [...]
Patek Philippe Wants To Like You; Finds It So Difficult
A few days ago I wrote about a new watch coming out of the house of Patek Philippe. Namely, the reference 5960P at about $80,000. A beautiful watch, but why all the hubbub for a timepiece that costs so much? For that money anything should be possible right? Well some people find themselves waiting around [...]
Tourneau Plugs Omega De Ville On TV: Next Watch Commercial Sighting
As predicted previously during my discussion of the Seiko Coutura watch commercial, it was predicted that more watch commercials would appear in this new wave of watch advertising. There is nothing inherently interesting about a product being advertised on television, but in the case of watches, it is a form of advertising rare of unheard [...]
Sharing Your Mind: RSS Blog Syndication For The Willing
People blog for a number of reasons, mostly to get their ideas out there. One takes the time and effort to share their thoughts and information in the hopes that they will attract an interested audience. The vast majority of blogs on the internet have a very limited audience. The reason for this is that [...]
Seiko Coutura Watch On TV: Watch Advertising Hits The Mainstream
For a long time in the US, watch Advertising was limited to spots in the Wall Street Journal and financial or business magazines (not to mention the limited number of watch magazines such as WatchTime, Revolution, International Watch, and others). Rolex was the king of the advertising heap, but you weren’t about to a Rolex [...]
Virtual World Marketing: Hublot Watches Establishes Itself On Second Life
In what seems a strange marketing decision, Hublot Watches with its new French captain, has sailed in to the waters of Second Life and purchased a virtual island there. For those of you now keen on all that is virtual, Second Life is a well established virtual world. Not quite a game, not quite a [...]
SEO Tip For All Websites And Bloggers: State The Obvious, Again And Again
For those of you who don’t live and breathe by the term SEO, it stands for Search Engine Optimization, or otherwise, the tactics used to make your website appear higher on search engine result pages. SEO methods can be a bit of a mire, and there are endless “services” out there that claim to help. [...]
More Watch Reviews! Demand What You Need To Make Watch Purchase Decisions
By far most watch reviews you will find today are provided by dedicated watch enthusiasts who purchase, then subsequently post images and reviews of the watches they purchase online. Usually these reviews are placed on forums or dedicated user submission websites. Then you have the professional reviews that you will find in watch magazines. More [...]
My Gift Giving Theory: Not What They Want, But What You Want Them To Have
The gift giving season is upon us, and at least for myself, the biggest issue is always, “what should I get ____?!” Of course, the commercialized nature of the season imbibes us with the notion that our paramount motivation for the next few monthsis ardently selecting those gifts that, “they will remember/will mean something to [...]
P.E.A.R On Notice! Apple Zealots Stalinize European Media When “Monopoly” Mentioned
P.E.A.R (People Enraged by Apple Relations) wants you to be aware of this! Watch this video of a Benjamin Cohen, a correspondent from UK broadcaster Channel 4 in the UK interviewing Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller. After you watch it, keep reading this article.Disturbing? That is really the term that [...]
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