Category: Collecting
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Timex Atelier Marine 1a
Intriguing upscale move. Why? Watches can be funny things. We love to discuss them. Its almost as if they exist more for the enthusiast community to talk about than to wear! One can look at a watch from so many different perspectives. Sometimes its technical, sometimes historical; could be emotional or the design details. We…
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One Watch Collection?
How many watches is enough? I read an article by Zach Kazan on Worn & Wound, The Tudor Black Bay and the Myth of the One Watch Collection, October 9, 2025. In it he talked about the concept of having to choose just one of your watches if you could keep only one. It got…
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Timex Diver and Diver-Like Survey Part 2: 1991-1995
Things Started to Get Weird I’ve been putting this off. This post is not so much the result of something I am excited about as it is an obligation. I feel like I need to continue to sort out in my mind the background watches from recent decades that have led to today’s Timex divers.…
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30 Years of Eddie Bauer Watches Part 4
More Interesting Finds from the Outdoor Retailer Time for some more EB. I have been holding off with some of my later Eddie Bauer finds. Its been a while since I have acquired any, but I still have some catching up to do. I’ve wanted to discuss some more of the Eddie Bauer label watches…
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Timex Mk1 40mm Auto
The Mk1s are back after five years When I saw the email from Timex about the release of some new Mk1s, I was on it. You see, I have a soft spot for all things Mk1. The Mk1 line was a lot of things; a military watch, a fashion watch, a people’s watch. It sort…
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Timex 36mm Mk1(s)
When is a Camper a Mk1? I’m glad to be writing about Timex again. I’m especially glad to be writing about new Mk1s, some of my favorite Timex watches. I woke up to look at my emails and saw one from Timex announcing the new Mk1s. The image before me was the one above of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…