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Chronographs are the sexiest mechanical movements ever; they are complicated, sophisticated and a pleasure to look at all the time.I’m a big fan of Chronographs in general, maybe I’ve never used one to time anything, but probably helped me killing time during boring meetings! Chronographs were made very early in the 20th century or even […]

Ancon watch company has been around for few years now, their famous Sea Shadow was a great success, picking up on this success they released Sea Shadow II late 2014.I was always over the fence when it comes to the Sea Shadow ll, I like homages to vintage Rolex and I own few of them, but

I’ve been following Lew & Huey for sometime now; and once they announced their new watch, I felt that I have to have one! So I jumped on it when the campaign started.The watch arrived before Christmas last year, and I have to say that it was a great Christmas present to myself. The watch

Seiko has been very famous for its legendary diving watches, from the 1960s up till today, with a wide range from affordable to high end luxury watches that can easily compete with its Swiss counterparts.One of those pieces is the beloved 6105 with the beautiful cushion case and the square hour markers. Later the 6309

Last year I was hunting for a rally strap with orange stitching to go with my blue-orange Orthos by Lew & Huey.After a little research, I found an ebay seller that had very interesting offerings, and I actually found a nice strap which I liked, but I wasn’t sure about the length, so I contacted the

While browsing my Instagram feed, I came across a very neat minimalist watch, it is simple, neat and very well balanced; I immediately jumped into their website, and I was amazed! Browsing through their website, I was really thrilled with their story, I here quote from their website: “In 2010 one of our founders went

Last month I covered Tiger Concept as a young watch company, and their major models, in particular the Big Crown, that I’m really fond of.Today, I will do a head to head comparison between the Big Crown V3 and their latest release V4. For the first glance, there are major differences between the 2 cases;First

Back in April last spring I was fortunate enough to get my hands on one of the very first straps that were produced by a very young leather straps’ company, called Artisan.The strap was 100% hand made and was customized exactly for my vintage Seiko 6139. Back then, their website was not yet setup, and

Helgray is a young watch company that was founded a couple of years ago after its sister company, Makara’s great success. The Silverstone is their fourth release.It was funded through a kickstarter campaign that was extremely successful with 3 stretch marks unlocked. So it is really safe to say that this was a highly anticipated

I’ve always been fond of supper-compressor watches, I was on a hunt for a vintage one for so long, I looked at Fortis, Benrus, Bulova, Hamilton as well as the Orient King Diver, but never pulled the trigger on any. It seems that most of the well known brands did a super-compressor at a certain