Affordable beater experiment

This topic has been beat to death but I wanted to add my own experiment. Why you ask? Because I want trust autos to take a beating and keep working accurately. At work I have to meet multiple time lines a day within a 10 second window AND I work in an environment that’s hard on everything. All those factors considered I’ve always worn quartz watches and I’ve never been let down (except by my old Marathon TSAR; i really hate Marathon). Last year I got a wild hair and decided to get a…

Affordable beater experiment

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What are your thoughts on the new Meridian Portland from Vero?

Looks like Vero have released a new version of their Meridian series called the Portland. The previous Rally version didn’t do much for me but this one seems right up my alley. I reached out to the brand about the hands as they look heat blued in the pictures but apparently they are electroplated blue and polished. I’m a sucker for heat blued but these still look good to me. I’ve read nothing but good things about the brand here and on Reddit. What are your thoughts about this new…

What are your thoughts on the new Meridian Portland from Vero?

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The Zodiac Glorious

Everyone knows Zodiac for the Seawolf and their chronograph models from the 1970s often analogues of Heuer models like the 2547 and 73373. The Glorious models often get over looked. Good affordable vintage option well except the rare 18k version you ne…

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FARASUTE watches ?

By now most of us are well aware of the perennial favorites on Ali AExpress: San Martin, Cronos, Steeldive, etc.

Farasute is not among them. Is it the styling?

I took a small detour to look at this brand for a couple of reasons.
One, because they se…

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