A Breitling Top Time 2002: Part II
Inevitably, on the lead up to Christmas, I buy too many cranberries. This year is no exception although somehow I …
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A Breitling Top Time 2002 from 1965: Part I
Last Spring I developed a hankering for a quartz timing machine, the throughput of watches powered by the dark side …
A couple of loose ends
A number of circumstances have conspired in the past few weeks to keep me from much in the way of …
Heuer pretender revisited: a quartz to auto conversion
It is not that common these days that I find myself confounded by a fault affecting a watch movement. Well, …
Head-to-Head: Precista PRS-18A vs MkII Paradive
Preamble Great beauty is often associated with high symmetry: a snowflake, the Taj Mahal or a single molecule of Buckminsterfullerene …
Face-off: Rolex vs. Grand Seiko
In the eyes of a typical consumer on the hunt for a new wristwatch, the received wisdom is that a …
CWC G10
One corner of the watch world that attracts a particular niche enthusiasm is that of the military wrist watch. Issued …
Small and perfectly formed: A 1960’s Silvana diver
There is a sense that we may just be starting to see a shift away from the obsession with giant …
Common denominator
Towards the end of the 1980’s three different manufacturers, Sinn, Tutima and Precista released low profile 200m rated divers watches, …
A Heuer pretender
From the mid-1980’s through to early ‘90’s, TAG/Heuer sold a range of rather nice 200m divers watches fitted with somewhat …
Tudor Addendum: Fitting a compression-fit acrylic crystal
The 1945 Tudor Oyster project described here left the watch essentially finished but for a somewhat loose domed acrylic crystal. …
Adventures in Amateur Watch Fettling 