The Tissot T-Touch is a well known and respected line of tech watches from one of Switzerland’s best known watch manufacturers. Tissot has built its name on crafting well built and affordable time pieces – something of a rarity from everyone’s favorite neutral federal republic. It has been nearly a year since I reviewed the [...]
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Ball Watches Get High (UP) With The New Engineer Master II Aviator GMT
Surprisingly, Ball Watch Co. is about to release a relatively straight forward and simple watch. I am a big fan of the brand, but lately their new watches have been getting functionally (and cosmetically) more and more complex. I always have appreciated their simple masculine looks that weren’t trying to hard to be something they [...]
The Oceanus OCWM800TBA-1A Super Chronograph Review on WatcReport.com
Let me introduce a new model to the Oceanus line up, the OCWM800TBA-1A Super Chronograph. The M800 features everything you would expect from Oceanus in an attractive package designed to compliment the avid traveler in both function and form. “Oceanus is ready to take on the high seas with the newest addition to the luxurious [...]
Watch Auctioneer Antiquorum Gets Maron-ated: Changes Under New (Ironic) Ownership?
If you recall some older articles of mine, I didn’t exactly speak to fondly of Antiquorum’s totalitarian tactics behind their running of Timezone.com, which they own. The large luxury watch auctioneer has been around for a while focused on the buying and selling of uber luxury watches and people who feel comfortable writing blanks checks. [...]
Seiko Prospex MarineMaster Pro SBDX001 Watch Available: Cult Favorite Diver
I learned something recently about Japanese dive watches, especially Seikos; there is a huge fan following around them. These avid watch lovers enthusiastically enjoy the best from the Japanese watch giants, and eagerly anticipate new models. While many of the watches coming from this arena are on the less expensive side of things, there are [...]
Swiss Army Dive Master 500m Watch Has Sublte, Good, Lasting Looks: Perfect All Purpose Watch For Many?
My best friend is not a watch fanatic like I am, but he does appreciate having a watch. His tastes are very conservative, but I never really understood what that meant; as though some unspoken formula dictated his tastes. Some amorphous mixture of understated looks and non offensive appeal. We came up with a name [...]
Mint Marcello C. Nettuno 3 Watch In Black Available Now
Even though I gave the Marcello C. Nettuno 3 a glowing review where I solidified my feelings, I continue to have positive emotions about this watch. It always seems to be my default watch that goes with everything, and I have no other watch that is as legible. Hell, I am wearing the watch right [...]
Citizen Campanola Lovers Get A Cream Faced Grand Complication Watch: One Available
I can hear you collectively rejoicing out there Citizen Campanola lovers. This is one of the nicest Campanola watches I have seen in a long time and represents two things. First, a beautiful cream colored dial with the signature Citizen Campanola high quality application with rich textures and deep gloss. I have a feeling its [...]
Panerai PAM 63 GMT Luminor Watch Worn By Tom Cruise In Tropic Thunder Movie
If you have a good sense of humor, like to laugh at Hollywood, and want to see some actually very impressive special effects (not to mention makeup) go see the movie Tropic Thunder. While it contains some controversial joking around (people will find issue with almost anything these days), it has a great cast, and [...]
BRM V12-44 Chronograph Watch With Checkered Racing Strap Available
BRM should be a favorite watch maker for Francophiles, racing fans, and watch lovers alike. Bernard Richards brings a love of auto racing and the desire to express himself with the same style and aesthetic. BRM (Bernard Richard Manufacture) makes incredibly unique and almost whimsical watches for the anyone who loves racing or unique style. [...]
Jaquet Droz Grande Second SUW Watch: Sensitive Strong Looks
Jaquet Droz is another luxury Swatch Group watch brand. I’ve always seems them a cousin of Breguet (in terms of style), which is also a Swatch Group brand. The majority of their watches are based on a “grand (grande) seconds” display with places emphasis on the seconds read out using an overlapping subsidiary dial which [...]
Vacheron Constantin Metiers d’Art Tribute To Explorers 2008 Watches: Not Particularly Good Tributes To Great Explorers
While I really like the idea, I just don’t think Vacheron Constantin succeeding in getting the point across with these watches. The Metiers d’Art Tribute To Great Explorers 2008 collection is meant to honor Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus with well crafted watches that have old-style maps on them. Solid gold cases frame sophisticated enamel [...]
The Art Of Selling Luxury Watches To That Rich Wealthy Crowd; Five Tricks Of The Trade!
Spending an inordinate amount of time looking through watch catalogs and marketing materials, I’ve noticed a lot of noteworthy trends. It seems as though someone, somewhere, has come up with a few rules regarding how to advertise really expensive items to the people that can afford them. Honestly, it is quite humorous much of the [...]
Limes Klassik Cartouche Watch Available: Guilloche For The Masses
Everyone deserves a really nice classic watch. Actually, let me be more clear because “classic” is probably the most common term in the watch industry, that and “heritage.” A classic (or “Klassik” for my Deutsche friends) watch in this sense refers to the vintage decorating on the watch using metal engraving machines. This practice is [...]
Pip-Boy 3000 Wearable Watch & Desk Clock: From Fallout Universe To Reality
For those of you in the know, Fallout 3 is the newest installation from Bethesda Softworks, and one of the most sophisticated and involving games out there. While no longer just for your computer, the Fallout games are set in an intriguing post apocalyptic universe where legacy technology mixes with nuclear mutants, in a role [...]
