Tag: Swiss Watches
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Brellum Duobox Triple Calendar Moonphase Titanium Review
The first thing that grabs you here is how much Brellum put on this dial without letting it turn into a mess. There is a lot to look at. You have the pointer date running around the outside, the day and month up top, the moonphase down at six, the running seconds at nine, and…
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Victorinox Swiss Army Original 24221 Review: An Easy Watch to Like
I took this Victorinox Swiss Army Original 24221 with me to Atlanta, and it ended up being a great watch for the trip. It’s light, easy to wear, easy to read, and has just enough personality to keep it from feeling generic. What I liked most is that it has a little color without trying…
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A Few Minutes with the Rolex Submariner Date
What can I possibly add to the mountain of words already written about the Rolex Submariner Date? Not much on the historical side. What I can offer is a little time with my own. This watch wins in the hand before it wins on paper. The first thing I notice every time I pick it…
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Serica 5303 Review: One of the Most Distinctive Modern Divers
Many of today’s dive watches try to win by pointing to older and more famous. The Serica 5303 takes a better route. It borrows the language of mid-century dive watches, then rewrites the grammar. The result does not feel derivative. It feels deliberate. That is harder to pull off than most brands admit, especially in…
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Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master 500 Review: A Heavy Blue Diver With Lots of Value
The Victorinox Swiss Army Dive Master 500 ref. 241173 brings a kind of appeal that lighter, slimmer, more abstractly “modern” watches never quite capture. Pick it up once and the whole idea comes across immediately. Steel, mass, sharp machining, deep bezel cuts, sapphire crystal, and that rich blue dial all hit at once. This watch…
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Swatch Skinautique SVOL100 Review: Bold Blue for Spring and Summer
The blue Swatch Skinautique SVOL100 gets your attention right away. It does not whisper from the wrist or blend into the background. Caribbean turquoise blue gives the watch its identity, and it gives an otherwise very simple design a lot of life. I think Swatch handled that color well. The clean dial, small dot markers,…
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Tourneau XLVIII Swiss Quartz Review: A Blue-Dial Watch With Real Presence + Super Bowl Vibes?
This Tourneau is the kind of watch that makes the secondary market enjoyable. It is a solid Swiss quartz watch with a sapphire crystal, a substantial steel bracelet, a clean date display, and a 40 mm case that lands in a very useful part of the size range. It feels properly made. Nothing about it…
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Swatch Color The Sky GS124 Review: Small, Bright, and Easy to Enjoy
Swatch built its name in 1983 around the idea of the Swiss-made “second watch”: something affordable, light, expressive, and easy to own. The Color The Sky GS124 fits that tradition well. It is not a watch built around complication or status. It is a compact quartz Swatch built around color, wearability, and mood, which is…
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Lord Nelson: A Swiss Survivor with a Red Day Window
Some used watches let your wear a small piece of history, not just a device that tells time. This Lord Nelson is likely around sixty years old, maybe seventy years old. (Though welcome comments to correct this!) It’s swiss made, still running, and very light on the wrist. I like that immediately. The case has…
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Good Swiss Style at a Used Price: A Victorinox Swiss Army Review
I like used watches like this because they offer classic good, versatile looks at a reasonable price. This Victorinox Swiss Army is clear, rugged, and easy to wear. Big numerals. Clean white dial. Rotating bezel. Date at 3. Black case. No fuss. I am not buying this sort of watch for novelty or status. I…