featured 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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Our perfect timepiece to mark a perfect moment
It is not uncommon that during your watch collecting journey, there will be times where the roles are reversed; where you don't find the watch but it comes to find...
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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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Finding the End Game Watch
Every watch lover has their grails. It could be a Patek Philippe, a Rolex, an Audemars Piguet, or perhaps even a Casio. Winding back the clock about 10 years when...
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Owning a (time)piece of history…my history
Searching for a watch made in one's birth year is probably something all vintage watch geeks will do at some point during their lifelong addiction. As a classic car lover...
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My First Watch - IWC Ingenieur Automatic
For the most part of my life, watches did nothing for me. Growing up in the digital world, I thought of watches as relics, a bunch of out-dated instruments about...
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