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Heading in the right direction
Smiling faces, excitement of starting a new job, happiness overflowing - yet make no mistake: some of the people you see today, at the beginning of 2023 will not be with us next January. This is just...
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Per Meritum
Monochrome is the world's second largest online watch magazine. Yesterday, Monochrome featured an interview with an independent Australian watchmaker. Titled 'Open up about Australian watchmaking,' the...
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One done, one more to go
At 11 o'clock on Friday morning I was submitted and admitted to Mater hospital for a quick fix. Nothing spectacular - just a long overdue knee surgery, a routine 'day stay' procedure. This was my...
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Top Tier Tuna
In 1975, after a complaint from a saturation diver, Seiko began designing the perfect watch to meet the needs of this particular market. After 5 years, the world's most advanced diving watch,...
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Update from the workshop:
As we've mentioned previously, we will be entering the Louis Vuitton competition for independent watchmakers. There are just under 2 months left before the deadline closes, so we are working full steam...
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Update from the workshop:
As many of you already know, our workshop in Brookvale has evolved over the last years. Not only do we make watches like the NH3 and MK II, we also have a separate business that focuses on making...
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Amazingly affordable horology
As I am holding (handling, photographing, pulling apart!) this lovely ALBA Pepsi, I am simply amazed by how cheap this watch really is. This has to be the best value for money from the ‘Seiko...
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Money and desire alone are not enough
The Mark II booklet is here. Yes, the old fashioned booklet printed on actual paper. "But who in this day and age prints booklets? Wouldn't a downloadable pdf document be far more appropriate, user...
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A perfect daily-wearer SEIKO - for a small wrist
I know we are days - if not hours - away from the point in time when some person out there would find 'small wrist' offensive enough to start a global protest. But that won't be a man. Let me be...
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Happy Rebelde Day!
Today is the most important day on our calendar. We were born on May 17, 2012. On that day, two seemingly unrelated events coincided, creating the cornerstone of what is known as the 'Rebelde...
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Back to business
https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/rolex-milgauss-auction-1234843638/ Last weekend, a Rolex Milgauss sold at Phillips Auction Geneva for $A3,750.000. Almost four million dollars! Yes it was a...
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I keep one under my pillow
I literally do. Surely, there are thousands of watches that would do the trick, but nothing beats Astron. Especially if you are a 'light sleeper'. You set your mental clock to 4:30, but you keep...
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And the gold medal goes to: The Crown
The other week I attended a typical ethnic wedding. And by 'ethnic' I mean a wedding with too much food, too many overdone bridesmaids and music so loud that we went deaf after the first song. The kind...
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You will be blown away - guaranteed.
In front of me is the latest and hottest release of May 2023: SEIKO Presage GMT. Absolutely amazing watch.CHEAP AS CHIPS Let's start with the crown argument for GMT: no reputed watch can offer you...
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Here it is!
A photo of the NH Fifty Five Timascus Guilloche has been just released on Instagram, so here is one for you as well. Thank you for your patience! Truly humbling: the Instagram followers went crazy;...
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Seiko automatic 3 days GMT
Let me state the obvious: the latest release of the SEIKO black and green divers GMT will be both the proverbial 'final straw' and the demarcation line between AliExpress enthusiasts, Christopher...
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Snoopy, come home!
Seiko 5 Sports is celebrating its 55th anniversary in 2023 and in honour of this, they have collaborated with PEANUTS and released a pair of Seiko 5 Sports models featuring Snoopy. Charles M. Schulz...
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Celebrating 110 years
This year marks the 110th anniversary of Seiko's first wristwatch. The history of Seiko began in 1881 when 21 year-old Kintaro Hattori opened a shop in Ginza repairing and selling timepieces. In...
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Approved
The Geneva watchmaking fair is an annual event that showcases the crème de la crème of the Swiss manufacturing industry. From spring and jewel makers to complex part makers to complete movement,...
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Philippe Dufour or Ludovic Ballouard?
Let me get straight to it: Dufour's presentation at the Geneva fair was rather bleak. Or more precisely: there was no 'Dufour' presentation at all. As just one of the five panellists, in an hour and...
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