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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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Wenger, Hamilton, L.L. Bean, Boeing Mashup
Just good ol’ watch stuff This kind of came out of nowhere. I was in the process of rescuing some estate sale and antique mall finds, and getting straps, when I decided I needed to do some watch writing. This will be a weird combination of characters, but talking about each of them had to…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Timex Deepwater Reef 200 41mm 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…
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Timex Deepwater Reef 200 41mm
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…