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Braun BN0172 Classic Watch – When Seconds Count!

Robert Farago — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 23:16:19 +0000

The Braun BN0172 Classic Watch doesn’t seem like much. It isn’t, if we’re talking about price. The timepiece runs $300 on Braun’s website, but you can pick it up at Amazon for $136 (no commission on links). What the Braun BN0172 Classic offers is actually quite rare in the horologsphere: an unmistakably prominent second hand. […]

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Can You Spot A High End Counterfeit Watch? Nope!

Robert Farago — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:34:31 +0000

The counterfeit watch is out there, somewhere. “With continued advancements in tech, the quality of these fake watches is getting better and better,” Watchfinder & Co.’s intro to their “spot the fake” quiz asserts. How good are they? Never mind all that stuff about “a fool and his money are soon parted.” High-end fake watches […]

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BALL Watches – How Not to Sell A Watch

Robert Farago — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 19:44:35 +0000

[UPDATE: BALL is now selling some of their watches online. Discounts at dealers are a thing – if you can find one.] The first rule of sales: make it easy to buy. A rule that BALL Watches rips to pieces and tosses in the wind. Truth be told, I found it impossible to buy a […]

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Watch Depreciation – 3 Ways to Avoid It

Robert Farago — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:58:33 +0000

If you like your watch, you can keep your watch. With a bit of luck and an eventual COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll never have to sell it. When you die, someone else will take the hit. So depreciation – actually selling a watch for less than what you paid for it – isn’t a factor. Unless […]

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Grand Seiko SBGA229 Review

Luke Ibis — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:00:48 +0000

The Grand Seiko SBGA229 Spring Drive Diver is emphatically not an OMEGA Seamaster or Rolex Submariner. But it is priced that way. So why would anyone spend their hard-earned and increasingly scarce money on a fancy Seiko rather than one of the Swiss stalwarts? Let’s be clear . . . The SBGA229 isn’t a diver’s […]

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007 Edition OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M

Saad Chaudhry — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:00:05 +0000

In 1995’s Golden Eye, OMEGA equipped Brosnan’s Bond with a blue dial Seamaster. From then on, the Seamaster was Commander Bond’s go-to wristwear. The twenty-fifth film in the Bond franchise marks twenty-five years of OMEGA sponsorship. In No Time to Die, 007’s OMEGA Seamaster Diver 300M Co-Axial Master Chronometer is suitably modern – and strangely […]

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OMEGA Olympic Games 2018: Review

Robert Farago — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:00:22 +0000

The watch above is not the Omega Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Edition. For their most recent horological salute to “amateur” athletics, OMEGA gussied-up the full-sized Seamaster’s dial with laser engraving, slapped a semi-transparent Olympic logo on the back and called it good. It isn’t. It’s lazy. Last time ’round, with their Olympic Games 2018 watch […]

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