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So I’m wandering around the JCK trade show (Jewelers Circular Keystone – no, don’t ask where the name came from) in the Mandalay Bay convention center at the south end of the Vegas strip. The place is huge – H-U-U-U-G-E...
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I’ve been absent for a few days and there’s a reason for it. In a word, Vegas. Yeah Baby! Everybody in the watch world looks forward to SIHH and Basel, right? Well, yeah, but that’s not all. There’s the American...
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In Rolex parlance, any Cosmograph Daytona that has a “panda” (black sub-dials against a light background) or “reverse panda” (light sub-dials against black) dial and was manufactured in the 1960s and 1970s is called a “Paul Newman.” This is because...
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Mikael BOURGEOIS Watches is an eponymous brand which launched in France in 2012. Founder Mikael Bourgeois has been an independent watch designer for nearly two decades, working for several brands. With that experience, he decided it was time to strike...
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Seems like every few weeks I come across another tuning house that’s working on current Rolex models, remanufacturing them into homages to the Rolexes of an earlier age. Just today I discovered Blaken, a German company doing all sorts of...
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Lost in the furor of the Tudor Heritage Black Bay Bronze, a strapping good looking 43mm timepiece if there ever was one, was the quiet new little brother of the Black Bay line, the Heritage Black Bay 36. Part Rolex...
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Tastes Looks like quartz! That’s the problem with this ultra rare Rolex complication. It’s an automatic movement moving along at 18,000 beats per hour, but the second hand moves, well, once per second. Just like a quartz movement. And while...
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