Gyorgy

We are moving to a new home

Hello everyone. I have been out for a while. Many things happened, many projects, adventures, ideas, and struggles that prevented me to continue this very special blog, talking about watches and collecting watches. I am pleased to let everyone knows that, from this month onwards, The Column Wheel will be merging with my new mainContinue reading “We are moving to a new home”

Seiko Presage SSA409J1 – The Honeycomb Star Bar limited edition 2020

I have stated many times how I started my interest, and then collection. It is a common journey. From not being interested, to having a first watch, then the first mechanical, learning and discussing watches. Up to this point I have always bought watches I found in the wild. I would go to an AD,Continue reading “Seiko Presage SSA409J1 – The Honeycomb Star Bar limited edition 2020”

Do you even vintage?

There are a few ways to tackle watch collection in my opinion. You can go and start buying the latest releases of the big luxury brands; you can go an find budget alternatives of the most famous and known timepieces; or you can go to the vintage/antique/old watches, and try your luck in hunting forContinue reading “Do you even vintage?”

A trip to Japan and my first watch hunt

Japan has been a destination for me since I was really young. My first ever connection with Japan was through video games. Besides a watch and guitar collector, I love video games, especially Nintendo, and at Christmas 1992 or 1993, my dad bought me a Super Nintendo, with Super Mario World. And that was theContinue reading “A trip to Japan and my first watch hunt”

Travelling with watches

A couple of days before I embarked to my first visit to Japan, and to do a small watch hunt while I am there, I posted a poll into the Grand Seiko owners Facebook group. The poll asked how many watches is the acceptable/ideal number to bring in a trip. I was asking myself thisContinue reading “Travelling with watches”

A Japanese snowflake, but not that one – Seiko Presage SRPC97J1 “Fuyugeshiki Cocktail” Limited Edition

Whenever I think about buying a new watch I follow one of two paths. I either go looking for vintage watches, on ebay, vintage shops, antique markets, anywhere you can find them, or I venture into a very dangerous place, full of pretty things: the Grand Seiko website. Just to clarify, that does not meanContinue reading “A Japanese snowflake, but not that one – Seiko Presage SRPC97J1 “Fuyugeshiki Cocktail” Limited Edition”

Grand Seiko 60th Anniversary

Grand Seiko is one of my favourite brands. Many people have their grail watches falling into the realm of Rolex, Omega, Patek, Ulysse Nardin. In the midst of Daytonas, Seamasters, Nautilus, and Freaks, my most sought after timepiece comes from one of the oldest watch and clock makers in the world, and the responsible forContinue reading “Grand Seiko 60th Anniversary”

My Favourite Complications – Moon Phase

Watches are one of those things that get people fascinated just by existing. For me, I really enjoyed the mechanics of the moving parts. It didn’t matter if it were quartz or mechanical, I loved to just turn the crown and see the hands moving. And to have such mechanisms on your wrist is suchContinue reading “My Favourite Complications – Moon Phase”

I bought a fake Rolex (and did not destroy it)

There are three possibilities that one will say those words. Number one, when you decide to buy your very first luxury watch, and you find a very reliable store on the internet that amazingly sells absolutely real, not fake Rolex for around £100, and then realise that those were not indeed real Rolexes. That didContinue reading “I bought a fake Rolex (and did not destroy it)”

Watching Watches – Favourite YouTube videos #1

We are in an age where a lot of information is compressed, condensed, and splashed in our faces in short bursts of blabber and misconception. Long articles, with thorough writing, and stringing stories, branching from the main idea of the piece, are rare, and the source of the major part of the population’s learning andContinue reading “Watching Watches – Favourite YouTube videos #1”