Category: Collecting
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Trials of Buying Preowned Watches Online
Take the Good with the Bad I’ve been away from blogging too long! Been working on an ADU remodel and taking in some Pacific Coast Highway site seeing. The trip was great; a visit back to areas lived in for 15 months or so, 20 years ago, in 2006-07. The remodel is going slow… To…
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Bulova Marine Stars Old and New (6)
More Marine Star Contemplating I did it. I broke my own rules and went against some of my earlier positions. I got a new Bulova Marine Star. By new I mean not preowned, but from retailer. Still, it is not a new release. I got a Marine Star Series C with Precisionist movement; 96B431 with…
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Armitron Adventure
Dabbling in some neo-vintage discoveries A reader got me thinking about a brand I had pretty much ignored up til now. In my activities of collecting, refurbishing(or having repaired), and writing about cheap watches, I have passed-over Armitron watches for one reason of another. This American company has been around forever, sort of in the…
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Timex Weekender Vintage
A Slice of the Big Weekender Pie Ten years ago, Timex was doing things differently. “Aren’t we all”, you might say?Well, yes. I suppose we all, even corporations, need to keep moving forward. I keep going back to the pre-COVID days because the watch market place was so different. Timex used to have fewer releases…
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Mid-century Skin Divers
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. OK, I’ll admit I’m not sure what’s coming yet in this post. I needed to get writing. I have a running list of other topics, but this one keeps nagging me. I have posted on and around the topic of divers and vintage-inspired divers before,…
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A Few Hacks
Bulovas Old and New Military-related watches get my attention. I just decided to use this label; military-related, which I don’t think I have used before? I know I have used military-inspired many times or military themed, maybe. Military-style for sure. Sometimes its just easier to use military watches even though it could be misleading. Lots…
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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…