Lowly Caliber: a blog for humble watch collecting.

  • 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…

  • The Things We Do… and More Bulovas

    The Things We Do… and More Bulovas

    Rescuing older watches and more I was just going to add some more Bulova Marine Stars to my older posts, but decided to go ahead and start another post about the how they came to be on my wrist. I started thinking about everything I went through to get some of these watches working again…

  • Timex Allied LT

    Timex Allied LT

    Vintage military twist on the Scout I’ve been holding back on posting about the Allied LT series. At first I was trying to get a grip on the basic Allied line up as well as the more limited Archive Allied group so didn’t want to muddle things even more. Now that the dust has settled…

  • Timex Archive Acadia

    Timex Archive Acadia

    The Plastic Case Alternative Time to get writing again as well as back on the topic of Timex. Its been a busy summer, particularly August, so I have not been starting enough new posts! I have been thinking a lot about Timex watches recently as you might have noticed in my last post, but also…

  • Why Timex and other Miscellaneous Ramblings

    Why Timex and other Miscellaneous Ramblings

    What is a Cheap Watch? In the pursuit of stocking my eclectic watch collection I keep trying to categorize the watch universe and figure out where I place myself in it. Why do I collect the watches that I collect? Also, because our society is so politically charged now, I wonder where watches line up…

  • 30 Year of Eddie Bauer Watches Part 3

    30 Year of Eddie Bauer Watches Part 3

    The Interesting Finds Keep Coming Here we go again. Since my last nerdy post on Eddie Bauer watches a while back, Part 2, more have found their way to me. I am trying to reduce the rate of of watch purchases and number of watches coming in. But as an afflicted collector, there is always…

  • Marine Star Glory Days Part 3

    Marine Star Glory Days Part 3

    A new century for Marine Stars This will be the third installment of my Marine Star musings. In Part 2 got up to around 1998. I can’t see a fourth because after about 2005 the watches mostly begin to lose interest for me. Overall, they just became big, boring, less interesting. I continue to collect…

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