Thursday, Jan 22 2009
articles: 7
The Gallet Flying Officer: A Direct Commission For the Allied Forces and Another Truman Watch
Gallet is a brand we haven't given much attention to here on Hodinkee, and that's certainly not because they don't have a long and storied history (they claim to have been founded in 1685). They also claim a handful of modern-day firsts (see below). The watch we are here …
The Eterna Super Kontiki: The Official Watch of the Israeli Defence Forces Special Units in the 1970s
We came across this wonderful post on aBlogtoRead and we had to share it. This article is about a watch made by Eterna in the 1970s for the Israeli Defence Forces. According to the article, this was the watch given to the group of special forces that were responsible for …
SIHH 2009 Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Diving Navy SEALs Watch Collection
The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor collection was already strong, but this new line solidifies it as the best diving watch collection Jaeger LeCoultre has ever made. The new line was just released at SIHH 2009. The alarm version pictured is my favorite, but there is …
Tutima in trouble for not paying for Pacino placement
Ever wonder how watches get into movies? It’s not because the actors like them. Watch companies pay big bucks for that kind of exposure, even if it’s a three second shot of a watch on Al Pacino’s hand. According to TMZ, Tutima agreed to pay the production company for …
Review of the Citizen Attesa ATV53-2933
A great deal of my interest in Citizen watches comes from the Attesa line which I consider comparable to the MR-G line of Casio G-Shocks. Both lines represent some of the most advanced, durable, and certainly coolest quartz watches in the world. The first Attesa to really …
Grand Seiko 10th Anniversary SBGR037
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Timing your Mechanical Watches
Now its easier than ever to time your watches.. no more setting the time to the atomic clock and wearing the watch for 24 hours and checking it against the atomic again. Now you can just purchase the Orbita Mechanical Watch Tester and find out your watches timing error …
