Can falling deeply in love, like never before, with one watch cause us to fall out of love with our other watches?
Curating the Collection – How The Vacheron Constantin Reference 92239/000P-4 Cooled My Passion for Watches
Category: Owner Reviews
Curating the Collection – A Vintage Seiko Speedtimer 6139 Pogue Chronograph Ousts a Ceramic Daytona From a Rolex Collection
Where I once thought of my Seiko Speedtimer 6139 as the anomaly in my Rolex-centric collection, I’ve since started to see that it actually plays an important role somewhere near center stage. The 6139 has somehow managed to work its way through my tangle of collecting rules and straight onto my wrist with nearly the frequency of any other watch I own.
Hands-On UNIMATIC x HODINKEE Modello Uno U1-HGMT – Progenitor of the Thinner UNIMATIC “Swiss Case”
The Skinny 41.4mm x 11.6mm Sellita SW330-2 GMT Movement Limited to 500 pieces, sold out. Originally $1395, trading for ~$2250 (March 2022) The UNIMATIC Swiss Case Why on this green Earth would I write a hands-on review of a limited edition that sold out in record time over a year ago? Because the Unimatic x… Read more »
Owner Review Patek Philippe World Time 5231J and The Law of Attraction
The Skinny Diameter: 38.5MM Thickness: 10.23MM Movement: Caliber 240 HU Water Resistance: 30M Price: 65,000 CHF Apophenia or The Law of Attraction? In 1958, a psychiatrist by the name of Klaus Conrad defined Apophenia as the human propensity to seek patterns in random information. Seeking patterns is the core skill of human intellect, but we… Read more »
Owner Review Roue Watches TPS
The Skinny Movement: Seiko VK63, meacquartz Dimensions: Ø 40mm, lug-to-lug 48mm, thickness 13.5mm Lug Width: 20mm Water Resistance: 50m Strap: 1 perforated leather & 1 rubber Price: $295 I took note of the Roue watch company when it launched in 2017 and made a mental note to check out the watches more closely sometime in… Read more »
Owner Review Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked 37mm Frosted Gold
The Skinny Diameter: 37mmThickness: 10mmMovement: Calibre 3132 In-house automaticWater Resistance: 50 MPrice: $118,700 Small But Mighty I have always looked at the watches in my collection as snapshots of different periods of my life, not to mark any special occasion, but rather as highlights of my impulsive personality. You’d expect to find evidence of purchase… Read more »
Owner Review Christopher Ward C65 Divetimer
The C65 Divetimer is a new, limited edition, manually-wound dive watch from Christopher Ward. Limited to 150 pieces, the watch was announced on the 1st of July and sold out within 24 hours. So let’s take a closer look at Christopher Ward’s latest limited release.
Our Watches – Swapping a 1972 Rolex Datejust 1603 for a 1976 Seiko 6139-6002 Pogue
Here at Beyond The Dial, we give each other a fair amount of shit for our respective favorite watches. Allen goes on and on about his 1972 Rolex Datejust 1603 as if this fairly common watch were special to anyone but himself, and David has become something of a Seiko Pogue pusher-man here in the… Read more »
Our Watches Swapping an Omega Speedmaster Professional for a Cartier Tank Basculante
Here at Beyond The Dial, we give each other a fair amount of shit for our respective favorite watches. Greg loves the Omega Speedy, and Allen loves the Cartier Tank, but also Greg had already rejected the Tank, and Allen has negative feelings toward the Speedy. In the interest of discovering new aspects of our… Read more »
Owner Review anOrdain Model 1 Green Fumé
I’m not one to normally associate watches with significant life events. I will often purchase a watch as part of a collecting plan and not as a reward to myself. In that respect, my watch purchases are individual steps on a collecting journey rather than a destination in themselves. This anOrdain, however, is different: it is a present to myself for reaching the grand old age of 50.