Journal

Grand Seiko SBG, Why?

This is my Grand Seiko SBGY003, a steel-cased centre seconds dress watch running on a hand-wound Spring Drive movement. Coming with a 38.5mm dial diameter and a curvaceous case that...

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The Only Watch I Would Ever Need

Like every superhero/villain has an origin story, us watch nerds all have one that kickstarted this whole ridiculous obsession. If you had told me 5 years ago watches would become...

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The watch that was meant to be

As a young boy I would often “borrow” the shiny gold A. Lange & Söhne pocket-watch that my Dad kept in his bedroom and take it to school to show...

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Pioneers of Contemporary Independent Watchmaking

(Photo Credit: Hodinkee)With the current craze for independent watches, it is difficult to fathom that there was a time when independent watchmaking hardly received much attention from watch collectors. The...

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The sad ending of a Chopard watch …

In mid-2020 at around the peak of the COVID pandemic, an old friend of mine reached out to me to get my advice on some watches that she had inherited...

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