1963 Omega Seamaster De Ville 165.020
By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …
Category Archives: Swiss
Denouement: Breitling Top Time Part III
You know what? I think we are getting somewhere. This has been somewhat of a marathon of the unfamiliar, taking …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
A catalogue of errors: A Tudor Oyster from 1945
In 1945 my late father-in-law, who was serving in the army at the time, was posted to Nuremberg with the …
A do-it-yourself Omega Seamaster 300
As is often the case with me, a somewhat impulsive eBay bid with no real agenda starts a ball rolling …
