It’s time again for everyone’s favorite game — watch shopping with money we don’t have! The best part is that we can pretend we have it, which should make filling
It’s time again for everyone’s favorite game — watch shopping with money we don’t have! The best part is that we can pretend we have it, which should make filling
Thank heaven I don’t need to own every watch I like, see, and try on. If I did, my life would be a living hell. Instead, when I come across
Another Friday, another Top 5! In this series, we take one classic watch and choose our five favorite references ever produced. Four of these references will be based on the
It’s funny how your watch budget pulls your focus toward specific watches. I tend to pay a lot more attention to watches below the €10,000 mark simply because that’s just
Rumors about a new IWC Ingenieur started last year during Watches and Wonders 2022. But even before that, the Ingenieur was on people’s minds. It was on my mind anyway.
Did you know that Swatch turns 40 years old next week? On March 1st, 1983, Swatch introduced its first collection of 12 watches in Zürich, Switzerland. And, as they say,
When our managing editor Nacho handed me this assignment, my first response was, “Pick for 500 euros is an easy one: Seiko.” It could not have been a quicker cognitive
I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy reading through the watch box stories from your fellow readers about their collections (or parts of them, at least). Last week,
Everybody loves the underdog. Now, I could claim that I bought my 1972 King Seiko 5626-7111 because I prefer the underdog over the top dog called Grand Seiko. I won’t.
The Quartz Crisis was a difficult time for the watch industry. The advent of quartz watches led to a significant upheaval of the established order. I’m certain that we are
My watch journey began with a Seiko 5 SNZG11J1 in the jungles of Thailand and Myanmar (that will have to be another story), so it seems more than fitting that
Almost all watch enthusiasts out there have their own history with Seiko. For many, a Seiko was even their first watch or at least their first diver. Others might be
The sad reality is that money is definitely an object, and when you have a family, it’s not always easy to allocate the amount of money you want to spend
I have written about IWC before in this series. In a previous installment, I expressed my love for the classic IWC Ingenieur that Gérald Genta designed. It’s a watch that
Except for my Seiko SPB317 and my Autodromo Intereuropa, all of my watches are Swiss made. Admittedly, this is not actually something I consider when I buy a watch. I