Wed 2 Jul 2008
Just a heads up on my buddy Lee at Swiss Watch Store UK. He has launched his new site and deals with a lot of diamond bezeled Breitlings and other Breitlings primarily, though he sells other brands as well occasionally.
A great place for UK-based collectors to pick up their Breitlings and accessories.
http://www.swisswatchstore.co.uk/
Fri 13 Jun 2008
Some of you might be familiar with this brand, but I would hazard a guess than most of you are not. Rama Swiss is a luxury brand of Swiss made mechanical watches who’s signature is a unique crown that pops out and turns into a miniature crank to turn the hands. Rama Swiss is not a new company; they have been around since 1914 producing high quality wristwatches. For the uniqueness of the designs, the watches seem to be priced very reasonably. Both models below retail around $3000-5000US in steel.
A couple of their unique peices include the Nazca:
And the Outland:
Very cool watches with very unique and masculine styles. I am very interested in picking up something from them when I can get a chance to see them in person!
Sun 1 Jun 2008
Franck Muller put out a set of 4 complicated watches last year, dubbed the Aeternitas Mega series 1, 2, 3 and 4. The fourth watch is the one of interest here. With over 1200(!) parts this is one of the most complicated watches in existance.
Here is the list of impressive features:
The Mega 4 comprises all the complications included in the first three, making it an extremely impressive peice of horology. This watch measures 40.8mm x 33.8mm with a width of 7.3 mm.
Thu 22 May 2008
Have you ever wondered what the different styles of Panerai cases are? If you’re already a seasoned Panerai collector, this will not be anything you already don’t know, but if you’re new to the brand, this article might be of interest to you. I know from personal experience that it was difficult to tell the difference between the difference case styles as they kind of look the same in pictures.
I wrote an article on Paneraisource.com that illustrates and explains the differences between the cases styles from Panerai. Hope you enjoy it:
Sat 17 May 2008
After having a conversation over the phone today with a fellow about watches, I noticed he pronounced the word “Submariner” as in Rolex Submariner as sub MAH ren ner. Like the baseball team the Seattle Mariners but with Sub in front. I pronouce it Sub mah REEN ner like the word Submarine with an R on the end.
I decided I would check it out and find out what the proper way of saying it is. I thought it would have been easier. From gathering the information all over the net, I have found that the old school sailors that would be in the submarines, would use my pronunciation, Sub mah REEN ner. However, there are a lot of British folks that swear that sub MAH ren ner is the way its pronouced.
Reading several sources tells me that the people that actually work as Submariners elected to use the pronunciation Sub mah REEN ner at some point in time and that is what they use. Dictionary tells me that both pronunciations are acceptable.
So next time you walk into a Rolex store and use one of the pronunciations, and the Rolex salesperson corrects you not-so-discreetly by intentionally using the other pronunciation, you can throw this in his face 😀
