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Owner Review: Tissot Everytime – My First Night Out with a New Watch

I’m completely sober waiting with my unbalanced and slurring friends outside of a nightclub. My white button-down shirt is stained with someone else’s vodka and Coke. I look down at my Tissot Everytime. The dial reads 11 o’clock. We have been standing in line since before 10. We’re in an alleyway standing next to a
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13/05/2021
Owner Review: Longines Heritage Military – Connected to the Past

Piercing pain of singing cicadas, dry and dusty smells of a silver mining town and the scorching hot grass leading under the constantly cool corrugated iron water tank that supplied the house. All these memories are seared into my being. Various things remind me from time to time of my childhood but they are somewhat
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11/05/2021
Owner Review: Seiko 7A28-7029 – The Golden Age of Quartz

Ah, the 1980s. Cruising down Sunset Strip in your Testarossa to catch your reservation at Spago; Barking orders at your broker on your Motorola brick (hopefully buying AAPL by the truckload); And admiring this nice little Seiko 7A28-7029 quartz chronograph on your wrist. This is no ordinary quartz chronograph though. This golden beauty houses the
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10/05/2021
Owner Review: Rolex Sky-Dweller 326934 Stainless Steel

The word and brand Rolex invoke different things for different people. Most commonly when people think of Rolex they think of wealth, money, excess, rich movie stars and performers. For me Rolex is all about the great solid watch they make. A watch I can buy and wear for 20-30 years and then pass on
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07/05/2021
Owner Review: Tudor Black Bay Blue 58 – One You Can Marry

Winner of a 2020 GPHG award and perhaps more impressively, the Fifth Wrist Diver of the Year at the 2020 Wristies Awards, the Tudor Black Bay Blue 58 is one of the most talked about watches to come out of 2020. But are we all just falling victim to Insta-hype? As 2020 drew to a
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03/05/2021
R&R – More Money, Less Taste

Welcome to the horology world’s ultimate watchmaking podcast network. On this episode of Rob & The Regulator we talk about new watch releases from Hermes, Cartier and Oris. Plus all the usual rubbish. The fine quality alcohol consumed sensibly on this podcast is provided by Milton Rum Distillery. Make sure to support our podcast by
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03/05/2021
Owner Review: Seiko Chronograph 7A28-7040

A black dialled watch with sub-dials at 3, 6, and 9… Could be a Speedmaster? Or a Daytona? Or any number of copycat derivatives. Not this one, this is the Seiko Chronograph 7A28-7040. In early 1983, Seiko unveiled the world’s first analogue quartz movement with integrated chronograph function. Up until then, unbelievable as it seems
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02/05/2021
Owner Review: Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical White Dial

Almost all watch enthusiasts (and YouTube reviewers on a slow day) have given this one a thought at least once – what is the ideal apocalypse watch? A G-Shock? No, the battery will eventually run out. Something solar-powered, then? Perhaps, but what if the sun is blocked by a dust cloud from a cataclysmic event
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29/04/2021
R&R – Adjusting Bezels At Mach 4

Welcome to the horology world’s ultimate watchmaking podcast network. On this episode of Rob & The Regulator we talk about new watch releases from Seiko, Omega and Sinn. Plus all the usual rubbish. The fine quality alcohol consumed sensibly on this podcast is provided by Milton Rum Distillery. Make sure to support our podcast by
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25/04/2021
Owner Review: Breitling Aerospace – Quartz Geekery and Beyond!

“Hey Darling look! I received my new watch today!” – (wife looks blankly at my wrist) – “And guess what? It’s a quartz watch! Who would have thought I would ever buy a quartz watch?” -(wife raises her gaze to stare into my eyes in total disbelief, nearly dropping the book she is holding in
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24/04/2021