Top 10 Hamilton Watches to buy in 2021
Introduction Hamilton watches are solid entry points to Swiss luxury watchdom if you want to head straight into that domain from quartz and entry-level mechanical automatics. They represent the...
Pitting Seiko against Hamilton (or, Hamilton against Seiko)
Words from the team: This is an interesting comparison the outcomes of which, strangely, shall almost always reflect the mindset of the person drawing the comparison. We’ll try our...
Which Hamilton mechanical watch do you think is the best? Part-II
Back to where we parted Three days back, we spoke about the movements that find way into the Hamilton watches (here, have a quick look at our earlier discussion...
Which Hamilton mechanical watch do you think is the best? Part – I
Hamilton: An account of excellence There’s no denial that a lot among us bought a Hamilton as our first nice – even real – watch and as the days...
7 Quartz watches worth collecting
The question is… Automatic movements, some of them, are priceless works of art, drooled after to be collected and treasured. We don’t feel the same way about quartz calibers,...
A guide on affordable Swiss watches
An alternative way to say Or, how to avoid the ‘cheesy’ Swiss without going bankrupt; the title could have read this way! The idea is the same; we simply...
Why are some of the best mechanical watches so affordable?
This can’t be answered in binary. For affordability, here, doesn’t cut down their value for money. Let’s start with the similarities these affordable watches share. The common points...
US watches: How they compete against Swiss, Asian and the other European brands
A lot among us are entirely clueless about American watch brands also existing and that number is no more the same as it used to be some decades back. It’s no...
The journey of the Valjoux 7750: To the 7753 and RW5000
Pre-talk It all started from the Valjoux 7750; an integrated cam-operated, automatic chronograph movement. Valjoux was a part of ETA before and the caliber 7750 they built is still...
A short glance into ceramics
We, as humans, get bored real fast with the same thing repeating over and over again for long. Watch enthusiasts too, faced the same crisis after stainless steel, plastics...
Carbon: A watchmaker’s recent ideal savoir-faire
2017 onward, the large watch brands have invested after finding something exotic for their watch cases. Surgical steel and titanium lost their exclusive charm over the run and we...
The History of Wristwatches – How It All Began
Good, old memories Astonishing as it might sound, the wristwatches were almost a woman’s thing starting sometime in the 1600s. Men preferred pocket-watches, a trend that continued till...
Gonzo’s Chronograffiti: III
Getting that luxury chronograph? Even further tips from Gonzo!Sometimes, even executions claimed to be the finest among modular constructions, will be less precise with jumps or stutters of the...
A return gift for the wedding ring
So many people hold this wrong notion that a gift out of gratitude or love must be a Patek Philippe or Rolex or a Lange but frankly speaking, a...
Air-time once again
A brief history Pilot watches should be your choice if you prefer substantial solidity with precise timekeeping that’s easy to read. Often referred as flieger-s (German for flyer), they...