Category: Collecting
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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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Marine Star Glory Days Part 2
Elaborate designs head to YK2 1997 and 1998 seems to have been a prolific period for the Marine Star designers? My collection seems to be heavy with models from those two years and I’m not sure why that is? As I was discussing in Part 1, there was a huge variety of designs and manufacturing…
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Marine Star Glory Days Part 1
The Golden Age of the Bulova Dressy Diver I finally had to sit down and start to write about my Bulova Marine Star collection. Its been a few years since I started collecting these. Throughout that time I’ve been researching and finding these little jewels, I’ve also been trying to figure out what it is…
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Real Time War Time
A watch for Ukraine It’s been too long since my last post. But, hey, it was time for Spring Break and chores. I’m back with a special watch to talk about. There are many reasons to like this watch, and many layers to discuss about time and life. At War War is a human constant.…
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Timex Allied: Part 2
The Chronographs I’ve been avoiding this topic. The Timex Allied collection has had me confused. When I first tackled the topic in Part 1, I did not want to include chronographs as the three-handers were trouble enough to sort out. Since then I have analyzed the Mk 1 collection I have noticed some ways that…
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Trials of Cheap Watch Repair
Repairable or Disposable Like everything we own, if used, watches eventually need some kind of repair. But not all watches are created equal. Some watches are created to potentially last a life time and your progeny’s life time too. On the other hand, some watches are made to be discarded instead of repaired. Some may…
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Neo Vintage Gruens: Part 1
Gruen watches as staple fashion accessory I’m not sure where I’m going with this post, but I have to go there. Since my blog is about watches in lower price end of the watch world I need to delve into that era of the 1990s-early 2000s when Fossil was king and there was a great…
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Timex Waterbury United
A step up in Field Fashion? When I first saw a Timex Waterbury United, I did not know what it was, but it hit the sweet spot for me. It had a field watch appearance, was small—things I like — but was different, more refined in some way Scout, Allied and Mk1? Then again, they…
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What am I collecting?
Observations on watch collecting Part 1: What and How Many? I need to get a post out! I need to stop looking for watches and write about the ones I know of. It just happens. You are searching the web for info on a certain watch and out of nowhere, you see a different watch…
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All in the Family
Two small 1970s autos back together after decades I’m changing things up a bit for this post. Most of my collection is of recent military/retro inspired quartz designs, but overall there is an eclectic blend of all sorts of watches that just make me feel good. In this post I am going to cover a…