Category Archives: Freelancer

Altimeter, Ana-Digi, Automatic, Aviation, Bluetooth, Casio, Chronograph, Citizen, Diver's, Dual time, Formula 1, Formula 1, Freelancer, GPS, Grand Seiko, Hamilton, Limited edition, Men's, Military/Field watches, MotoGP, Multi-function, Oris Aquis, Oris Pro Diver, Presage Automatic, Radio Controed, Raymond Weil, Seiko, Skeleton, Small Seconds, Smartwatches, Solar, Star, T-Touch watches, Tissot, Tradition, World Timer, Zeppelin

2 easy ways to match your clothes and watches!

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
03
Jul

The power of a wristwatch, gentlemen – like that belt, the tie and those shoes of yours – can build your appearance as easily as it can destroy! Earlier, we had a somewhat similar discussion on this; now, we broaden the aspects. As an ideal example of an ungentlemanly style of dressing, nothing compares to

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Automatic, Automatic, Chronograph, Citizen, Dress watches, Freelancer, Hamilton, Limited edition, Luxury, Oris Aquis, Raymond Weil, Seiko, Watch Materials, watches

Entry-level luxury: Countering dubiousness

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
25
Dec

Luxury, ideally, shouldn’t let you consider economies. At times, therefore; luxury is wasteful. Luxury is also different for different immediate surroundings; luxury depends upon what role you play. The world of wasteful luxury has its various imitations whereas sensible luxury doesn’t! It is a very interesting realm! There are many more options to it than

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Automatic, Chronograph, Diver's, Freelancer, Frogman, H-10, Hamilton, Hamilton X, Khaki, Multi-function, Oris Aquis, Powermatic 80, Powermatic 80, Raymond Weil, Tissot

A guide on affordable Swiss watches

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
10
Dec

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 focus upon looking beyond glossy ads, shining glass and metal and sweet faces and help you to spend your hard-earned cash on a worthwhile Swiss timepiece.

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Automatic, AVI 8, Chronograph, Citizen, Freelancer, H-10, Hamilton, Hamilton X, Raymond Weil, Super Titanium

Why are some of the best mechanical watches so affordable?

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
03
Dec

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 All are quality products, providing excellent values. They all use in-house movements or stock movements manufactured by renowned movement manufacturers. E.g. ETA from the Swatch Group supplying

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Alarm, Automatic, Chronograph, Citizen, Direct Drive, Dual time, Eco-Drive, Freelancer, Hamilton, Kinetic, Kinetic, Limited edition, Luxury, Multi-function, Perpetual Calendar, Radio Controed, Radio-controlled, Raymond Weil, Seiko, Spring Drive, Swiss-made, Tissot

Top 5 names in sports-luxury watches: Call them ‘Timeless’, if you will

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
14
May

Amidst myriad crappy choices in this particular category, these 5 will fill you in. Concerns about luxury watches in the sports category provide today the chance for offering this definitive list. The biased ignorant lot will hate alike, assuming that if an item costs more, it must also be superior as well. While this kind

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Automatic, Freelancer, Limited edition, Raymond Weil

The two-handed Freelancers L.E.: Raymond Wile watches that don’t compete for attention

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
20
Feb

In this post, we talk about another Raymond Weil movement; to be specific, about a particular caliber that found way into a couple of their limited edition Freelancer watches. No, not the tad industrial, perlage-rotored RW5200; we talk about that another day. They got pretty simple suffixes, unlike the general tendency of giving difficult names

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Automatic, Chronograph, Freelancer, Hamilton, Hamilton X, Raymond Weil, Swiss, Swiss-made, T-Classic, Tissot

The journey of the Valjoux 7750: To the 7753 and RW5000

Posted on by Watch Gonzo
18
Feb

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 highly esteemed movement for its robustness and reliability; so much that the majority of mid-range mechanical chronograph watches in the market today keeps on using

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