Tag: Review

Owner Review: BREGUET «3800 Aeronavale» by @nautec07

Last year, as part of its 250th anniversary celebrations, Breguet launched a reissue of the legendary Type XX, originally designed for the French Air Force in the 1950s. The military models were designated Type 20, while the civilian models were known as Type XX. At the jeweler’s, I had the opportunity to try on the…
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04/06/2026
Owner Review: BUNZ «Moontime» by @tapir_ffm

The Democratisation of Icons It’s May 17, 2026: yesterday, the Royal Pop was launched—a €400 watch featuring the Audemars Piguet logo and the design codes of the Royal Oak. A watch designed to let anyone wear a timepiece that exudes the essence of AP and the Royal Oak. Fast rewind: the year is 1993: the…
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18/05/2026
Owner Review: Timefactors «Precista PRS-82» by @a.cesnovar

Timefactors were pioneers in many things – one of the first microbrands, even before “microbrand” was a thing – and one of the first companies to recognize the value in resurrecting vintage watch brands and reissuing stuff from their back catalog. And one of those brands is Precista. The history of the original brand is…
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07/05/2026
Owner Review: Sinn EZM 3 S by @tapir_ffm

My friend (and partner in (watch-)crime) Wolfgang calls this „a watch directly from hell“. Well, he’s kind of right: this watch is „hellishly cool“: This watch is fully black. Dial, bezel, case, bracelet, clasp … everything black. And as it is a Sinn, it’s black hard coating on a hardened surface („tegiment technology“), which means…
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27/12/2025
Owner Review: Merkur Pierre Paulin Star Wheel by @timetothethree

Wandering Hours, Centred Design In a watch market flooded with sterile reissues and gimmicky complications, the Merkur Pierre Paulin Star Wheel stands out as a rare gem, a watch that confidently straddles vintage aesthetics and mechanical intrigue without losing its soul to overproduction or trend-chasing. Who Is Pierre Paulin? Pierre Paulin was a celebrated French…
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19/08/2025
Owner Review: Serica 5303 by @danghorology

As someone who owns more watches than pairs of socks (don’t judge), I’ve always told myself I don’t need another diver. Which is exactly why, one sleepless night, I found myself messaging a good mate and buying his barely-worn Serica 5303. He wore it once, decided it was too small for his big ol’ wrist, and…
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29/07/2025
Owner review: A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Small Seconds by @watchesandwords

“The Swiss make the world´s best watches – so do the Germans” This once was the funny slogan of a well known newspaper and journal campaign by A. Lange & Söhne in the mid 1990s. It shows the two watches “IWC Da Vinci” and “Lange 1” side by side. Of course, the add compares two…
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08/07/2025
Owner Review: Seiko SPB151 “Willard” by @brewedtime

The afternoon sun was ferocious. I wiped the beads of sweat from my brow and took a moment to gather myself and take in my surroundings. The Mekong Delta was unforgiving but breathtaking. My shirt was wet, and I had lost all sense of time under the torture of the sun, so I glanced down…
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15/04/2025
Owner Review: Glashutte Original Senator Automatic by @watchesandwords

Thinking wrong because … A German watch, a watch made in Glashütte, Saxony, an elegant time only execution, center seconds, clear bright dial, Roman numerals, railroad minute track, heat blued steel hands. I bet that every reader will now have a specific brand in mind. Exactly! I mean this brand. It’s exactly the brand that…
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19/03/2025
Owner Review: Casio G Shock MRG B5000BA by @le.bleu.a.deux

In the early 90s, every cool kid in school had a G Shock on their wrist. Being the only Asian kid in school was not easy in the eyes of my parents. Dad worked hard to land a watch on my wrist when he learned about the “wrist game”; the Casio had a semicircular rubber case and a rectangular…
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04/02/2025