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 [...]

Building An Internet-Based Business: Figuring Out How to Handle Customer/Client Data With A CRM

For the past 10 years or so, the world has seen the emergence of a new kind of business. That which does not require an actual retail location, office, or much of anything. Entirely online businesses have been a solid trend for good reason. They are far less expensive to set up and maintain. Further, [...]

Wanted: The Ultimate Wearable Weight Loss And Health Data Device

Sometimes you need to do more than merely appreciate or discuss what currently exists, you need to ask for things to be made. There are a variety of watches from makers such as Suunto, Polar, Linde Werdelin, and other that will tell you your body’s temperature, and heart rate. With that information they will also [...]

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 [...]

Making Sense Of The Sellita SW200 Movement: Same As ETA 2824-2

Lots of people are starting to notice that watch makers are starting to indicate the movement of a watch as “Swiss Movement.” For most of us, such an ambiguous designation is unacceptable, as this can mean just about anything. Strictly speaking, for a watch or movement to legally have the “Swiss Made” designation upon it, [...]

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 [...]

Watch Choice For Survival: Top Pick For Deserted Island Scenario?

If you are anything like me, you have seriously considered what you would do in a survival situation on a deserted island. Do I ever anticipate being in this situation? Well no, but as a dedicated lover of the survivalist genre (from Robinson Crusoe to Castaway), I do take the time to ponder such issues. [...]

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 [...]

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