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When they hear “Rolex,” watch geeks don’t necessarily think “racing.” And when they hear “Daytona,” they usually think “Rolex,” before they think of the high-banked race track in Florida. But Rolex is well connected with racing. In fact, the brand...
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If I told you about a watch selling at auction that brought 83 times its pre-auction estimate, would you think I’m crazy? If I asked you to name it, could you? (No fair peaking at the archives here on Everest...
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To many of us who call ourselves mechanical watch aficionados, the quartz crisis is the stuff of legend and hearsay. It happened so long ago it couldn’t have really been real, could it? After all, we still have quartz watches....
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Quite a buzz happened recently on the Facebook group, Wristshots. It was all about the photo you see above. The photo has 377 Likes as I write this. Compare that to the typical 10 – 50 Likes a photo gets...
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It seems that journalistic literature this time of year is filled with two things – retrospectives and resolutions. What happened during last year, and what we’re promising to do in the next year. And don’t get me wrong, looking back...
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Most of you reading this know that the Omega Speedmaster is the official Moon watch used by NASA Astronauts on all their EVAs (extra vehicular activities – space walks), including the astronauts who landed on the Moon. That story is...
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And what exactly are the Roaring Forties, you ask? The term refers to the region between forty and fifty degrees south latitude, a region of extremely strong easterly winds. But what does that have to do with watches? Well it turns...
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