This fall, Citizen Watch Co unveils the super cool, super high-tech looking Eco-Drive Satellite Wave limited edition watch that captures the day, date and time signals from satellites 20,000 kilometers above the earth. This ultra-precise watch (since satellites signals are controlled by the atomic clocks) has worldwide reception — receiving signals from each of the …
Category Archives: Wristwatch Reviews
Time Capsules: Product — Expensive Watches Extraordinaire—Jacob & Co.’s Crystal Tourbillon on the wrist
There are expensive watches and then there are really expensive watches – and with good reason. Let’s get it out of the way, the extraordinary Jacob & Co. Crystal Tourbillon retails for $900,000 – and it is NOT a one of a kind timepiece. It is, however, created in a limited edition of 180 pieces. …
Weekend Sojourn: Watch Shop Spotlight — Exquisite Timepieces
Sometimes a retailer is so exceptional that it warrants talking about. Trying to find the best watch shop isn’t always easy, but brick-and-mortar store, Exquisite Timepieces in Naples, Fl, is an amazing store. The authorized watch shop for some of the finest watch brands in the world, the luxurious store sells more than 32 top …
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Time Capsules: Product — Breitling Watches, What’s Black and Red all over?
Take an up close and personal look with Atimelyperspective as we explore Breitling watches, particularly the cool new Chrono-Matic Blacksteel Limited. Created in a limited edition of 2,000 pieces this is one powerful looking timepiece. What’s more, it is absolutely great on the wrist. It feels good, too, thanks to the red rubber-molded bidirectional rotating …
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Trend Report: Aviator Watches
IWC Big Pilot’s watchCall them what you want, aviator watches, pilot watches, aeronautical instrument watches – it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that aviator watches are easily one of the most important genre of timepieces on the market today thanks to so many technological developments in shock resistances, antimagnetic cases and precision excellence, …
Weekend Sojourn: Great Reading – Coming Soon
New AP book It was in 1875 that Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet founded Audemars Piguet in Le Brassus in the Swiss Jura. Today, almost 1,000 people in Switzerland and around the world work for AP. A new book, Audemars Piguet, et cie, celebrates this legendary brand and recalls the passion for fine …
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Off the Cuff: Alpina Watches – Extreme Diver 1000 Meters
For the past month, I, along with both my husband and my nearly 17-year-old son, have been alternatively wearing the Alpina Extreme Diver 1000 meters watch. We have been sharing this dive watch on our different adventures. I, naturally, needed to experiment with and wear and son, however, are the avid ocean-goers, with my son …
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Weekend Sojourn: Orbita Watch Winders Team with Brown Safes for High-Tech Safety
Keeping those mechanical watches wound, and safe, can be problematic – but North Carolina-based watch winder manufacturer Orbita, has been teamed with Brown Safe Manufacturing — premiere safe and vault company in California, for a decade to bring watch lovers several cool products that give solutions. Among them is Brown’s luxury “Man Safe” with eight custom-made …
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Trend Report: Dragon Fire
Chinese astrology has always been incredibly important in watchmaking, especially when it comes to the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac. Of them, one is legendary—the dragon, associated with honesty and bravery. The year 2012 will be the year of the dragon and many brands already are gearing up, creating distinctive …
Weekend Sojourn: The Jersey Shore
With all the hype since 2009 about MTV’s reality show, “The Jersey Shore,” shot in Seaside Heights, NJ, a visit to the Jersey Shore, as we New Jerseyans call the beach, somehow seems contrived. In fact, I’ve been vacationing at the Jersey Shore – in and around Seaside Heights — for – well – let’s …