1680/8 YG, Black Nipple Dial Rolex Submariner
Rolex’s fabled gold Submariner may in fact be the single watch most classically representative of the ‘fuck-you-money’ attitude. Or at least, it was.…
Favre-Leuba Bivouac 53223
Few self-proclaimed tool watches yield the kind of functionality on offer from this vintage Bivouac. Fewer still do so with such personality, coordinated…
Breitling Chronomat 769
Though it is most famous the aesthetic, Breitling’s Navitimer by no means had a monopoly on the sliding scale rule chronograph. Breitling owned…
‘Apollo XII’ Omega Speedmaster 3597.16
In the cult of Speedmaster, there is a sort of hierarchical nerd strata . . .or, perhaps I should say fractal. One may…
Tissot 6916 Chevron Dial
In the Mad Men era of pie-pan Constellations, UG Monodates, and waffle Princes, value alternatives existed alongside these heavyweights. Tissot may be largely…
Universal Genève 884100 ‘Big Eye’ Uni-Compax
It’s hard to articulate just how desirable I, and many other collectors, find the mythical Big Eye. So named for its oversized thirty-minute…
Value Proposition: Dornblüth & Sohn 99.2(1)ST
The Germans have a thing for tradition, amongst a more broad fixation with efficiency and currywurst. I am not sure I would consider…
First Generation A. Lange & Söhne Datograph
In any sane market, when a new model debuts, consumers prefer it to the previous. Take modern autmotive enthusiasts as an example. The…
A Well-Preserved 1016 Explorer I
I don’t even think it’s contentious for me to admit that I fundamentally distrust people who don’t love the 1016. An Alpinist for…
5850 Franck Müller Casablanca of Royal Original
Every so often I find myself lamenting the fact that watches cannot speak. On rare occasion, the story a watch would be able…
FAP 1675 Rolex GMT-Master
Small engravings and stampings can mean a lot to collectors. Daytonas engraved ‘drive carefully, me’ are something entirely separate to a ‘standard’ 6239…
Vacheron Constantin 43031 Perpetual Calendar
The 222 is not VC’s only underappreciated reference. The phrase ‘post-quartz perpetual’ brings to mind almost exclusively AP’s 5548, debuted in 1978. However,…
1 of 500 Doxa Sub 300T Divingstar Poseidon
As nods to a vintage past go, this one is damn cool. The original 1970s Divingstar (the name given to yellow-dialed Doxa Subs)…
