Am I the only one who has a love/hate relationship with rotating bezels?

It seems as if there’s just entirely too many watches with rotating bezels that hardly need them. Most will rarely if ever be used and the penalty is a smaller dial than would otherwise fit on the same size case. A recent example of this is the Omega Planet Ocean Worldtimer. I get that the Planet Ocean line is a dive watch, but I can’t help but thinking this would have been a much better non-dive watch sans the rotating bezel and something smaller than dinner plate size. It’s not as if…

Am I the only one who has a love/hate relationship with rotating bezels?

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Vintage watches, what I’ve learned and why you should own one or more and my recommendation

Vintage watches can be a true joy to own and wear or they can be a complete nightmare. What your experience will be greatly depends on your expectations. Much of the reason people love mechanical watches has to do with the nostalgia of a mechanical instrument that for the most part has been relatively unchanged for a few hundred years. What better way to enjoy that experience than to acquire a watch that is several decades old and came from an era when there simply was no other option…

Vintage watches, what I’ve learned and why you should own one or more and my recommendation

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The Unofficial Traska Watches Thread

Post pictures of your Traska watches! This thread is well overdue.

I now have two of these beauties and I’ll provide a mini-review of them. The one I’m missing is the Freediver, so I’ll leave that one up to others. I think Traska makes the ultimate affordable watch simply because they hit that sweet spot of $500usd (give or take) while doing a much better job of packing in more value for that amount. You get everything you’d expect at this pricepoint like sapphire crystals, excellent…

The Unofficial Traska Watches Thread

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