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

Tiger Concept is a young watch company and watch parts’ seller out of Hong Kong.I believe it started few years back, its main offerings include Vintage Rolex homages. TC became very popular among watch enthusiasts specially on the BSHT forum as well as the Homage forums. The most interesting about their watches that they can be

I’ve always been in love with Seiko vintage divers, specially the affordable 6309.I was on the hunt for one for years, they usually pop up every now and then on the bay, mostly in bad shape or sellers using stock pictures, and whenever I find a nice one, it is usually above my budget. W&W

Steinhart is a relatively new watch company, started around 2002, all watches are designed by Günter Steinhart himself; all the pieces have swiss movement mostly ETA or Selitta, although they have started producing their own movements recently, the hand-wound ST-1 and the automatic ST-5. All watches are assembled in Jura Region of Switzerland.   They have developed a lot of  watches

In my search for a Rolex Explorer homage, I came across few nice options; but I ended up getting the least expensive one, the Alpha version. This particular watch was produced in very low quantities in 2012 with three different colors’ variations, they were all sold out in a couple of months.Alpha then produced another

I always believed that the Rolex Explorer is one of the best versatile watches ever made, it is dressy enough to have it on a suit, and can be easily dressed down with jeans.The Explorer was initially released in 1953, and it got re-engineered in 2010.History of the Explorer It was highly perceived upon its

I’ve started to look into more classic design watches after I figured out that I don’t have any but sport watches, mainly divers.I came across Mongol watches on Instagram; and I also checked their Kickstarter campain;https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1017926824/mongol-watch-company-classic-minimal-elegant-timep Kashif Barlas the founder is a true watch enthusiast and a big fan of vintage time pieces.The name MONGOL

As my watch collection grows, the number of quartz watches I own has been minimized, except for 2 special pieces that I’m not planning to get apart with any soon. One of those is the Victorniox Swiss Army Classic Chrono, blue dial; my wife got me this watch 7 years ago as a birthday gift;