The last couple of years the watch industry has seen a number of smaller, independent watch companies crop up with a scattering of affordable new offerings: Ocean 7,Boschett, Reidenschild and Deep Blue are just a few that come to mind. Prometheus Watch can now be added to this list. Prometheus is a new watch company [...]
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Introduction During World War II a handful of watch manufactures – IWC, Laco, Stowa, A. Lange & Söhne & Wempe – designed and built watches specifically for the German Luftwaffe. Called Beobachtungs-Uhren (more commonly as B-Urh or translated as observers watch), these watches were all designed with some common traits: large in size – not [...]
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Specs Make: Debaufre Model: Triton Movement: Sellita SW-200 Dial: Black Features: Date, Screw down crown Material: Stainless Steel Crystal: Sapphire WR: 300M Width: 45mm Height: 14mm Lugs: 24mm Lug to Lug: 54mm Weight: 133 grams (head only); 164 grams (w/ stock strap) Date Purchased: January 22, 2008 Purchase Price: $525 Source: Direct from Debaufre Why [...]
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Seiko SNKF11K1, the “Big Freakin’ Seiko” Specs Make: Seiko Model: SNKF11K1, “BFS”, “Big Freakin’ Seiko” Movement: Seiko cal. 7S26, automatic Dial: Black Complications: Day, Date Material: Stainless Steel Crystal: Mineral WR: 100M Width: 44mm Height: 12mm Lugs: 24mm Lug to Lug: 50mm Weight: 85 grams (head only); 95 grams (w/ stock strap) Date Purchased: September [...]
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Side by Side: A Comparative Review of the Sandoz Submariner (Singapore) and Marcello C Nettuno3. I recently bought the Sandoz Singapore Sub for a project, but am still waiting for some additional parts to arrive before I send it off to Duarte. Since it’s here, and I also have a Marcello C Nettuno3 I thought [...]
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This review will only be posted here and on the PMWF. Enjoy. Why this watch? In the past few years of watch-insanity that I have gone through I have learned that I really have two favorite complications in a mechanical watch. I have (and have had) many watches with one or the other of these, [...]
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Why this watch? Well that’s a good question. I had just over $200 in the old watch fund, and was shopping, but initially I did not know for what. Other than I wanted an automatic or hand wind, I did not have an idea at first of what I was looking for… After some shopping [...]
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Make: Zodiac Model: 200M Automatic Diver, Ref. # ZO8000 Movement: Automatic Claro Semang CL 888 with 18 jewels Dial: Black Complications: Date Material: Stainless Steel Crystal: Sapphire WR: 200M Width: 45mm Height: 15.5mm Lugs: 24mm Lug to Lug: 51mm Purchase Price: $495 Source: Nordstroms.com Why this watch?: I first saw this watch back in March [...]
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