What is Seiko Diashock protection ?
Diashock (shock resistant device) is installed in every SEIKO watch. It protects the balance staff against even repeated and violent impacts and helps make every… Read More »What is Seiko Diashock protection ?
Diashock (shock resistant device) is installed in every SEIKO watch. It protects the balance staff against even repeated and violent impacts and helps make every… Read More »What is Seiko Diashock protection ?
Officially, at Tudor, they don’t use the word “vintage”, preferring the term “retro-chic”. Old models are not “reissued”, they are “reinterpreted”. It was in 2010… Read More »Tudor Mines The Productive Seam of “Reinterpretation”
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In 1892, Leon Breitling set up G. Leon Breitling S.A., Mont Brilliant Watch Factory in Switzerland. In 1962, a Breitling chronograph was catapulted into space… Read More »Breitling Datora 1968 Manual Wind Chronograph
Prominent figures who patronized the Abercrombie & Fitch Company in its excursion goods days include Amelia Earhart, Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Teddy Roosevelt, John Steinbeck,… Read More »Abercrombie & Fitch 1958 Manual Chronograph
In the early ’70s, the company still produced watches made in Switzerland for various military contracts, and this Hamilton is one produced for Britain’s Royal… Read More »Hamilton 0552 Pilot 1975 Manual Chronograph
In the days before GPS technology an accurate chronometer was a vital navigational aid. Marine chronometers were fairly large clocks, often mounted within a wooden… Read More »Navigational Complications
Girard-Perregaux’s oldest roots lie in the work of Jean-François Bautte, the Geneva watchmaker jeweller who presented his first creations in 1791 and whose succession Girard-Perregaux… Read More »Jean-François Bautte In Geneva, 1791
In January, at an awards ceremony in Zurich modeled on the Oscars and televised in prime time throughout Switzerland, the first-ever SwissAward for Lifetime Achievement… Read More »Profile: Breguet
Mechanical watches are not only by and large more expensive and complex than quartzes, they are also a little high-maintenance, as it were. The mechanism… Read More »Watch Your Watch
Disassembly of Calendar Mechanism Remove minute work cock by taking out the two small screws. (The large screw holds the setting cap spring in place).… Read More »Servicing Hamilton Grade 694 Calendar