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”
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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?”
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”
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)”
The Column Wheel 