Lowly Caliber: a blog for humble watch collecting.
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30 Year of Eddie Bauer Watches Part 3
The Interesting Finds Keep Coming Here we go again. Since my last nerdy post on Eddie Bauer watches a while back, Part 2, more have found their way to me. I am trying to reduce the rate of of watch purchases and number of watches coming in. But as an afflicted collector, there is always…
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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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M&Co 1987 31mm
Gill Compressed Wins the Day Sometimes a watch isn’t about it being a watch. Its about things happening around it that come together as a watch. Its about things that people are interested in that are attached to a watch. A watch is a useful tool for telling time, but it can carry along other…
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30 Years of Eddie Bauer Watches: Part 2
Outdoor fashion ’90s? style — Sporty, anyone? Do you have good taste? Do you have style? Are you fashion conscious? A lot of us are afraid we don’t, so we allow others to define these for us. Its a shame, really, because we are all different and have individual tastes, but we want to be…
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30 Years of Eddie Bauer Watches, Part 1
The Wild World of Retail Branded Watches Here I go again. I’m about to relate to you my collecting experiences with a body of watches that I feel somewhat uncomfortable discussing. I really like the watches, but I feel like I don’t have a firm grasp of the subject matter I want to tackle. I’m…
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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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