No. 8

With both our smartphones paper diaries full, Hoptroff provides an elegant solution to
modern time management.
The No. 8 is the wearer's very only Personal Assistant; all knowing but respectfully succint,
she doesn’t overload with unnec…

Seiko finally added thermocompensation to their spring drive movement.
Claimed ±20 spy.

I tried one on.
It's nice, although for me it was slightly too small, and I prefer dark dials.
Spring drive movement is lovely to look at and putting the rese…

The holding of chronometer competitions in such a public way to the late 1960s may have had commercial motivations, but that very motive, and the gusto with which companies participated, is based on a premise that accurate time was valuable.

This cult…

HAQ nuts need to check the accuracy of their watches and there are different ways of course, as detailed in the dedicated topic (163) Methods of Determining the Accuracy of a Watch | WatchUSeek Watch Forums , the Naked-Eye Method, the Stopwatch Method,…

I have successively purchased three HAQ watches.
The first one is the AQ4091-56M, which uses the A060 movement and is claimed to have an accuracy of 5 SPY.
The second one is the SBGP017, which is equipped with a specially adjusted 9F85 movement and is …

Can Mr. Moderator and/or the other powers that be around here please clarify? There are now a few threads related to UFA around here.

So the UFA movement is thermo-compensated (based on my very limited understanding reading the GS website linked belo…

Just wondering what do you all think about Citizen's decision here? Within the current line-up, only the 40mm models with crown guards have lume while none of the smaller ones do. I understand the aforementioned 40mm models are meant to be 's…

All the major blogs have reviews. Attractive purple. 37 mm. Steel, which should be fine.

But no micro adjust! Argh! Seriously high still, too, but come on, once you have the micro adjust, and still on a top-tier (for non precious metals)…it shoul…

In another thread I made some rather unflattering remarks about the oscillators in my two MoonSwatch watches. No, the MoonSwatch isn't HAQ, but this thread isn't really about the MoonSwatch, it's about the source of my initial mis-apprai…

Deployant has a new post yesterday about 2 new fall releases…a Duratect Platinum with platinum-foil dial, and a Duratect Amber Yellow with a gold-speckled brown dial. It included this:

The movement remains the exce…