Value Proposition: Tissot Janeiro Z199 LE Chronograph
My recent pet fascination has been neo-vintage—particularly limited—pre-instagram watches. You may recall seeing the Septantieme, SSASS Alpinist, or early steel Franck Muller recently.…
Panda Tudor 79170 Big Block with Graduated 12-Hour Bezel
Few watches will ever experience the fame that the Daytona has gathered in its recent few decades. Perhaps the Nautilus and Royal Oak…
Berthoud Genève Compur
If you’re a watch collector hardcore, you likely love Universal Geneve. If you’re a bit of a watch obsessive, may be aware some…
Unrestored 1940s Movado M90 Chronograph
The Movado M90 is an early two-register chronograph that has largely been consigned to the history books. Recent explosions in value of François…
Sinn 103 B ST TY Steel Bezel
I generally like to believe that present is better than the past was and that we can make the future better than today.…
Tudor 7159 Monte Carlo: the Quintessential Summer Watch
Posted recently on S. Song’s page for a seriously reasonable sum, this 1974 second generation Monte Carlo is a legend of design. Tudor…
The Original Omega Speedmaster Snoopy: 3578.51.00
After just featuring the famous albino Silver Snoopy, a lovely and reasonable example of its older generation just surfaced. I feel fate has…
Zenith El Primero A384 with an Original Gay Frères Ladder
1969 was quite the year. Aside from Omega’s all-time greatest product placement, the Swiss were manufacturing some seriously attractive metal. There was the…
A Perfect Silver Snoopy Speedmaster
If you even remotely know your Speedmasters, there’s nothing I can say about this original Silver Snoopy that hasn’t already been said. The…
Value Proposition: NOS Heuer Pre-Carrera 73321S
Ask any serious collector: condition is everything. There’s something truly lovely about handling something a half century old whose exterior belies that time.…
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…
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…
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,…
