It’s a cold and damp fall morning in Mildenhall, a small town in Suffolk, England. Despite the early hour and unpleasant weather, a large crowd has gathered at the town’s aerodrome. The place is nothing more than a wide field, a few short runways and ramshackle buildings. Just the day before, the King and Queen… Read more »
If you’re reading this in the first place, you’re probably a “stuff” person, right? I don’t mean this pejoratively.
The Skinny Case: 44x51x13.1mm Stainless Steel Movement: 6R15 Seiko Automatic Lume: LumiBrite (blue and green) Water Resistance: 200m Strap: Black Silicone MSRP: $950 USD My wife is making sandwiches at 06:30 in the morning. I’m in the garage on a ladder. We keep the big cooler and the paddleboard on shelves. There are countless other… Read more »
The Skinny Diameter: 40mm Thickness: 12.25mm Movement: HMC 200 Water Resistance: 12 ATM (120m) Price: $21900 We first saw the Streamliner case in January 2020 when it housed the limited edition Flyback Chronograph. With a name inspired by the streamlined locomotives from the 30s and 40s, the design was a divergence from Moser’s normal style… Read more »
Seiko hadn’t give us a relatively affordable and reasonably accurate recreation of the 62MAS until just a few weeks ago when they released the SPB14x series.
This story was originally published on my personal blog The Hogtown Rake. My first watch, a Timex “Sprite.” The case is angular and small, about 33mm. The dial has no numbers, save for the date window at 3 o’clock. And as a kid I loved that dial: a background of deep blue wood grain. It… Read more »
The Skinny 43.5mm pointer date with small seconds and rotating timing bezel $2800 International Efforts to Restore Waterways When Oris began making limited editions that supported restoration of waterways and reef systems, it seemed as if they would – like so many other companies – kind of stick with one or two of these mission-based… Read more »
The Skinny Diameter: 43mm Thickness: 11.2mm Movement: Tutima Caliber 619 Water Resistance: 100m Price: $19,500 Ask a watch enthusiast to name the most famous watchmaker in Glashütte, and that honour would likely be bestowed on A. Lange & Söhne. Or, maybe Glashütte Original. Or, if you like your watches modern, perhaps Nomos. I doubt many… Read more »
I always thought that the Everest tie-in with Rolex was silly. That bit of marketing seemed like something from the Mad Men era. Turning Sir Edmund Hillary’s summiting Mount Everest into a half-page magazine advertisement that failed to resonate with me personally. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “Everest” as the highest point: climax, apex. Ok, that’s… Read more »
The Skinny Diameter: 42mm Thickness: 11.5mm Movement: PF044 (In-House) Water Resistance: 100m Price: $24,900 as tested As an engineer with a passion for watches and how they are made, for me one of the most intriguing aspects of the Parmigiani story is how a relatively small manufacturer became one of the most vertically integrated in… Read more »