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Breitling, chronograph
My first proper watch was a Breitling: a quartz colt to be precise…
CERTINA, GOOD TIME
This good looking square watch is called 'Good Time' - hard to argue with that really.
FINARTE AUCTION, MILAN - JUNE 12
This beauty caught my eye out of all the other lovely watches.
LONGINES CONQUEST
Longines have a number of ‘families’ in their illustrious watch history (from 1954) and one of my favourites is the Conquest
OMEGA, CONSTELLATION
The Omega Constellation range was launched in 1952 and has been a mainstay of their output ever since. It was Omega’s first automatic chronometer watch
SEIKO, BULLHEAD
This is the prosaically named reference Seiko 6138-0040 or the better known: Seiko Bullhead, due to its marvellous top loader pushers and crown which resemble, well, a bull’s horned head.
seiko, regatta
This has got to one of the more colourful and exuberant dials of any watch released in the late 1960s. February, 1969 to be precise.
buler,tasmania
This watch screams 1970s style and I love it. It’s big at 44mm across, bold and blue…
zenith, autosport
This is one of my favourite watches from one of my favourite watch brands. There is something about Zenith that exudes reliability,
Universal Geneve, ferrovie dello stato
Universal Geneve is a wonderful horological place to be. You can gaze at the beauty of their chronographs such as the Compax, Aero-Compax and Tri-Compax (1930s-40s)
Seiko, sportsman
There is something rather special about this watch. Its partly that its serial number shows that it was manufactured not only in my birth year but also the same month, but also that it is one of the most elegant
grana, military vintage
Grana has an interesting story. It was a brand founded by brothers Adolf and Alfred Kurth who had originally founded a movement and supplies factory for the watchmaking industry