Lowly Caliber: a blog for humble watch collecting.

  • Vaer D5 and D4

    Vaer D5 and D4

    Devolution of the Vaer Diver Family I wasn’t planning on writing about Vaer watches, really. I had other things on my mind, but I just stumbled into a Vaer rabbit hole recently. I have been watching Vaer’s development on the back burner for several years but never took the plunge to learn more. What I…

  • MVMT X Nigel Cabourn Diver LE

    MVMT X Nigel Cabourn Diver LE

    Unlikely Collaboration? I did it because of Nigel. A few hours ago I knew really nothing about MVMT or its watches. Did those two guys do a tv commercial a few years ago? I use no social media apps except for Pinterest, maybe? I don’t have any social media apps on my phone. I had…

  • Cincinnati Desk Diver 1 LE

    Cincinnati Desk Diver 1 LE

    Hot Rod from a ’74 Vantage Case Man, I love watches! They can just be cool objects that delight you when you least expect it. I sort of resolved to myself, without any focused plan, to just post more often about watches that delight me without digging so deep into specs or research. Maybe I…

  • Three Citizens

    Three Citizens

    Passion and Pragmatism How do I write about one of the biggest watch makers in the world? Citizen can mean a lot of different things to different people. They offer so many types of watches it is hard to look at the whole. I guess I will just write about the sliver of the brand…

  • Another Year of Watches

    Another Year of Watches

    2024 was a year of changes in my collecting What a strange year it has been? A year I hoped would be a steady, leveling period to get caught up on many things in my life ended up getting a little Topsy-turvey. I procured fewer watches, which is good, but then the ones I did…

  • Timex Allied Coastline

    Timex Allied Coastline

    A Crossover in the Archive Era It took a while for the Allied Coastline (AC) to grow on me. At first contact is seemed strange. I was mostly interested in 38mm and 40mm Timex lines and the Coastline was 43mm and I was having trouble seeing where it fit in with the Mk1s, Allieds and…

  • Rubber Strap Study

    Rubber Strap Study

    Reflections on finding that just right match I expected to move on to other things besides my new Timex Deepwater Reef, but it presents an opportunity to talk about one of my favorite things; watch straps. Like many of you, I have more straps than I do watches. If you want to do different things…

  • Little Windups

    Little Windups

    Accumulating random vintage mechanicals Diverging from my normal subject matter I felt the need to dig into my interest in odd-ball watches. I have been accumulating watches that I can’t really fit into a formal collection. My wife got me started on estate sales in the late nineties. Since then we have probably refurnished a…

  • Timex Deepwater Reef 200 Hands On

    Timex Deepwater Reef 200 Hands On

    That didn’t take long No sooner had I finished my first draft post on the Reef 41mm diver, when I went and ordered two. I suppose that was a good idea since Timex was out of stock in less than a week on all styles. It was a bit compulsive for me, but I really…

  • Timex Deepwater Reef 200

    Timex Deepwater Reef 200

    Timex enters the Diver fray, as only Timex can I’m jumping right on this. Normally I write about watches I have discovered years after they were released. For this new Timex release I just stumbled onto this morning, I had to get out a lot of built-up contemplation. I never really wanted to write watch…

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