An Exceptional Bakelite 1953 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms
I’ve been waiting patiently on the touchline for the right Fifty Fathoms to surface in the market. This is a site built to…
A Charming Enicar Jet Graph Mark 3
Enicar, ever the forward-thinking watchmaker, saw the inherent redundancy in the word chronograph that others had missed. There is not a watch with…
1st Gen Universal Genève Polerouter Compressor Sub
Artifacts of #lockdownlife have proven completely unpredictable for me. I’m now convinced that I can speak French when drunk. I’ve been practicing a…
Tiffany-Signed 6241 Steel Rolex Daytona
Serpico, Beyer, Gubelin, Bucherer, Cartier, and above all Tiffany: these are the words that, when combined with a manufacture signature, collectors lose their…
Heuer Autavia 2446 ‘Jochen Rindt’ Mark 3
In 2016, TAG announced a tournament to pit classic Heuer Autavia designs against each other in an online voting tournament. The winner, by…
One Characterful Pilot: Breitling 812 GMT Chronograph
If I’m aggressively, incriminatingly honest, the Navitimer tends to bore me slightly. Even the AOPA dials. I much prefer something like a Co-Pilot,…
Omega 166.072 Seamaster Memomatic
If you’ve been here a little while, you’ll know I have a fascination with the alarm complication. You may also know I’m a…
Double-Burgundy, Wabi-Sabi Tropical Rolex 6536
The classic, iconic small-crown Submariner is ageing remarkably well. Every single Black Bay 58 you see plastered across your Instagram feed owes its…
Rolex 16753 Root Beer GMT-Master II with ‘Volcanic’ Dial
This watch has all the hype words: nipple-dial, root beer, two-tone, tropical, GMT, and Rolex. And yet, I don’t feel it’s a hype…
Certina DS PH200M Red Crosshair
The DS, short for double security, is Certina’s bread and butter diver. The double security moniker was a reference to a case design…
A Near-NOS Movado Super Sub Sea
I occasionally feel privileged to share some of these watches with you. This is, of course, quite silly. I don’t own any of…
