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What makes a Rolex, a Rolex? That is a question you should ask your self before you drop a fairly significant amount of cash on a watch. Heck there are millions of clones out there for sale, so why by the Rolex? Well that is actually an easier question to ask than you would think,…
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You can’t really love watches and not want to own certain timeless classics such as the Rolex Submariner. These timeless classics have been from the moon to the bottom of the sea and back still ticking. They have been in movies as a representation of cool and you too can share…
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For watch enthusiasts there is no event more anticipated and longed for than Baselworld. Baselworld, held in Basel, Switzerland in March, is like draft day for watches, a time to see what is upcoming in the watch world. Watch and style fans will be with bated breath in anticipation of…
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With a new Global CEO comes a new movement. TAG Heuer is once again breaking new ground in the automatic chronograph movements. TAG Heuer and the company’s new CEO, Stephane Linder, have introduced to the world a new totally in-house designed and produced chronograph movement that has been dubbed…
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As a kid the idea of being an astronaut was thrilling, and well… out of this world. As an adult the thrill comes from being able to own the astronaut’s toys. The Swatch Group and Omega have once again made this possible by bringing back an updated and improved…
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Is there a perfect watch? Is there a watch to end all watches? A short answer to this question is, in the language of our Spanish-speaking friends, no. Having any other answer would be as impossible as a parent picking his favorite his favorite child. No one is that…
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Rolex has unparalleled brand-name recognition for a reason: they make excellent, world-class watches and they have consistently gone their own way in more ways than one. When other Swiss companies were trying to reinvent themselves as makers of cheap quartz watches just to stay alive, Rolex followed a different path. They elevated their game and…
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It is fairly well known among the watch collecting cognoscenti that Sean Connery wore a Rolex Submariner watch in the early James Bond films—but not on the usual metal Oyster bracelet. Instead, he always wore the iconic dive watch on either a leather band, or more commonly, a regimental stripe cloth strap. For quite a…
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Even many watch collectors would probably be surprised to know that the first dive watch produced by Rolex wasn’t the famous Submariner. It was actually a Panerai. Yes, that Panerai—the Italian watch company popularly known for brawny, generously-sized watches with unique half-moon crown guards. How did an Italian watch company become the first seller of…
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In the space of a few short years from 1926 to 1931, Hans Wilsdorf and his nascent Rolex watch company changed how we look at watches and what we expect from them— forever. He did it with two perfected technologies that helped define the modern wristwatch for the next fifty years: the waterproof watch case…
