Lowly Caliber: a blog for humble watch collecting.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Why Timex and other Miscellaneous Ramblings
What is a Cheap Watch? In the pursuit of stocking my eclectic watch collections 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…
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