TL;DR: Non-watch enthusiast wifey shared a story about being enamored with a Cartier watch since her college days, identified it as the Cartier Panthère, so hubby gifts one to her. Two years later, we both find out it had been a different Cartier.
A c…
Continue readingLongines Conquest clasp at the top, Tissot PRX at the bottom
The Conquest is my most recent acquisition, so I've been r…
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I mean it.
This is it.
This is the watch.
I'm not talking about it being my or a "grail" watch. I'm also not saying it's the watch I can't live without; I don't think I'm far enough into m…
Continue readingYesterday one of my youngest coworkers (mid-20s male) asked me, "Can you tell me where I can go to shop for a used mechanical watch?"
I made sure not to get too excited that someone's come up to me unsolicited to talk about timepieces (…
Continue readingWhenever I watch an Adrian Barker vid my eyes always gravitate towards the Explorer wall art behind him.
I presume it'…
Continue reading(TL;DR – For the same amount of money I had no issues buying motorcycles, but I have reservations doing the same for watches…)…
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My SMP is my second most worn watch in my current collection. Not a daily wearer, but it’s worn at least twice a week.
When I first took ownership of it in late 2022, I had clocked it losing about 6secs/day then. Decided to try a timegrapher app on my phone now, and it’s purported to lose 11secs/day, BE of .5ms, and amplitude between 240 – 250 degrees.
I’m not surprised at all that it’s losing even more time; it’s to be expected…
In the end, I put on my SMP300 and didn’t pack anything else. I’m on vacation after all, and didn’t want to have to fuss about my timepieces. So apparently, it’s still the watch in my…
I had been eyeing this Seiko SBSC009 for a minute now because I’d been wanting to add a white dial to my collection, and I didn’t already have a GMT. I’d also never bought a watch from overseas, and since my local Seiko AD couldn’t source one for me, off to eBay I went to buy a new watch for the first time too.
So yeah, happy to tick off a few boxes…
