Top offers on Luxury watches: Swiss Watch Week and More…
Status symbols vs. Novelties for those in the know Luxury never goes out of fashion. Neither do the luxury products. That’s the reason you might arrive in a 1940’s...
Sensible buys for the singles
HOW ‘DOUBLE’ BECAME ‘SINGLE’? This space is not to provide advices about singlehood or what singles should do about it, apart from bringing under notice a few things...
Grand Presage: Let’s raise a different toast!
The Seiko Presage models we’ve seen all these years started with the Cocktail Time and then it went to the Open-Heart dials, which served well as the first steps...
Top 10 Hamilton Watches to buy in 2021
Introduction Hamilton watches are solid entry points to Swiss luxury watchdom if you want to head straight into that domain from quartz and entry-level mechanical automatics. They represent the...
Why Fossil is making more watches in Switzerland than in Hong Kong?
Quick facts: i. Manno, Ticino canton, Switzerland is a solely Italian speaking area near the Italian border. It is 210kms far from the Jura watchmaking region and a lesser-known...
Seiko 5 Automatic vs. Tissot Swissmatic – A lookback (IV)
Lookback I||Lookback II|Lookback III All right, no point in beating around the bush. Let’s get straight into the most important aspect of a watch: The movement. It’s quite surprising...
Ways to choose the Watch: Taking a small break from the actual discussion
It was quite a big gap. Ideally, it’s the Seiko 5 Vs Tissot Swissmatic discussion that should be here; however, it is worth knowing at this stage the ways...
Seiko 5 vs. Tissot Swiss-Matic: A lookback (I)
Or, do we call it just one more ‘Japanese vs. Swiss’ debate? A necessary declaration It’s quite an opportunity to try responding to this question; feel free to counter...
Pitting Seiko against Hamilton (or, Hamilton against Seiko)
Words from the team: This is an interesting comparison the outcomes of which, strangely, shall almost always reflect the mindset of the person drawing the comparison. We’ll try our...
Which Seiko automatic movement is the best? – II
For those who need a recap, please click here. Big names involved That means – whether it’s a rivalry or an alliance – this thing is going to be...
Which pocket should your watch go into?
[A Quick Recap] Now that pocket watches are more of a luxury or exotic option rather than a necessity or a norm, it becomes all the more important to...
Diver watches: The First & the Furious [I]
One hundred years ago, people had a very different idea of what a watch would mean. Understanding that shift in thinking can tell us a lot about the fluid...
Rock a Pocket Watch and Roll a classy dice
Mechanical masterpieces are a very sophisticated way to tell time. It’s a realization that returned with a view of the Powermatic Silicium. Any day I’d go for it as...
Clearing the ‘Mall Watches’ stigma (I)
Many of the words we humans keep using are not exactly what you think they mean. As kids, there are probably none among us……who didn’t pull his/her peers’ legs...
Is Sapphire an Expensive Affair?
Ratio is known to offer both domed and flat sapphire crystals cheaper than anybody else. Sapphire and its many myths Spend some time in the watch forums across the...