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Monday, Jan 19 2009

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Trouble Picking Out A Watch? Hodinkee is here to help.

Wristwatch News, Reviews, & … | 19. Jan 2009 23:26 |

Since launching Hodinkee in the middle of last year, our Editorial team has been inundated by friends, family, and complete strangers with questions about what watches to buy.  We have been as responsive as we possibly can be, because all we want to do is help people find …

Yes We Can own Obama’s Watch

WristWatchReview.com | 19. Jan 2009 23:10 |

Obama wears a Jorg Gray 6500 Series Chrono and now you, too, can own the same watch. How much is this piece of presidential ephemera? $325, babies, and worth every penny. Here’s the story: org Gray 6500 Chronograph worn by President Obama was given to him as a 46th birthday …

Need Help Picking Out A Watch? Hodinkee is here to help.

Wristwatch News, Reviews, & … | 19. Jan 2009 22:16 |

Since launching Hodinkee in the middle of last year, our Editorial team has been inundated by friends, family, and complete strangers with questions about what watches to buy.  We have been as responsive as we possibly can be, because all we want to do is help people find …

Return of the Vulcain Cricket

The Breitling Watch Blog | 19. Jan 2009 21:06 |

The Vulcain Cricket was introduced in 1947 as the worlds first mechanical wristwatch with alarm, and today continues their tradition of creating reliable watches with their unique alarm complication. Their current marketing campaign includes a lot of advertising in which …

SIHH 2009 News: Ralph Lauren

Fratello Watches | 19. Jan 2009 20:31 |

Since years, Ralph Lauren sells vintage timepieces from Rolex, Patek Philippe, Vacheron etc. in their flagship stores. Ralph Lauren probably has a passion for watches, because they now introduced their own line of [serious] wristwatches. The RL collection consist of a …

Concord C Lab QuantumGravity features aerial bi-axial Tourbillon Mechanism

Wrist Dreams | 19. Jan 2009 17:01 |

The BaselWorld 2009 draws closer and watch makers start to tease or unveil their latest innovations. The C1 QuantumGravity timepiece, designed by the C Lab Series team in conjunction with BNB Concept features an aerial bi-axial Tourbillon mechanism. The...

Super, Marvel, Unique, Exuberance, Hyperbole—Seiko in the 1950’s

gmtplusnine.com | 19. Jan 2009 16:45 |

Posted by: martback The 1950s was a very interesting period in the history of the Seiko wristwatch.  It was the decade when Seiko started as a simple manufacturer, big in the Japanese market, whose watch designs and production methods were based on pre-war Swiss and …

The Rolex DeepSea: One Name, Three Very Different Watches

Wristwatch News, Reviews, & … | 19. Jan 2009 16:45 |

The Modern-Day Rolex DeepSeaMany of you know the Rolex DeepSea as the ultimate Rolex sports watch, it looks a lot like this.  The DeepSea is essentially a jacked up Rolex SeaDweller (which itself is a jacked up Submariner).  It wasn't designed to be worn on dives under …

Ulysse Nardin Silicium Sonata Video

No Redirect | 19. Jan 2009 15:35 |

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Review Of The Casio G-Shock GW-M5600BC On WatchReport.com

aBlogtoWatch | 19. Jan 2009 12:05 |

"Sometimes the only way to really know how much you like a particular watch is to simply see how much you wear it. I've had plenty of watches which I thought I was going to love -- watches with all the right features and materials -- but that ended up getting almost no …

Ikepod Solaris Watches: New Direction For Marc Newson

aBlogtoWatch | 19. Jan 2009 10:20 |

Ikepod is designer Marc Newson's quirky but cool watch brand. From its inception, most of his watches shared the same round bulbous look and had model names like "Hemipode." The watches are very cool and very hard to come by with extremely limited distribution (only two …

Cortina $7.9 mil Theft: Interpol issues Wanted notice

WatchingHorology | 19. Jan 2009 10:20 |

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