Watch News, Reviews & Features With A Flavour of Scotland
Happy New Year #watchfam and welcome back to #halfwatchtuesday! Just like everyone else, we’re refreshed and recharged after a busy holiday period and we’re ready to get right back into bringing you the best #halfwatchtuesday that we know it can be. We have a few new ideas that we’re tossing…
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Scottish Watches Podcast #110 : Watch Media Analysis and Antics with Ryan Schmidt
News
Belated Happy new year watchfam. Here we are the, roaring 20s, barely a week old and already we have nearly had climate apocalypse and World War III. Hopefully it will have many amazing things also, but such is the love we have of watches we can blank out less important…
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Scottish Watches Podcast #109 : Omega 321 Movements, Moser Recap, Hodinkee Video Hate and More
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What a start to 2020 it has been. In just a short 11 days, Trump almost started a war, Iran shot down a Ukranian jetliner, Ghosn escaped from custody, Taiwan an election, Hong Kong’s still in chaos while down South, Australia has had to fight arguably the worst bushfires in…
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Show notes are back! and what a show to be back for. It is a good one even if I do say so myself. We are joined on the day of release by Edouard Meylan of H.Moser & Cie, who managed to cross the German border at great cost to…
News
When I think H. Moser & Cie (“H. Moser”), I think of fumé dials and handless dress watches. Beautifully finished watches that are simple but distinct in its simplicity with their brilliant dials. Even their Vantablack dials, a material that absorbs almost all light, are so well done that they draw you in, and emphasize the features that you can see. A quick…
Reviews
Life moves in circles, and so does fashion and trends. Since watches are as much art as they are science, as much form as they are function, the same principle seems to apply. From the 1960s to 1980s, yellow gold was the choice for the vast majority of jewelry. It was deemed to be valuable and durable, a…
Reviews
The Apple Watch is the most popular wristwatch in the world – outselling all the Swiss manufactures combined in 2019. Purists in watch collecting despise the watch and some don’t consider it a watch at all. Others, counting as much of the planet, love the watch for tons of different…
News
I have always had a soft spot for Omega. I was in my early teens when Goldeneye was released. I can remember watching the video of the film over and over again and playing the game on the N64 for hours on end. It is fair to say that I…
Reviews
The last year saw a massive resurgence in two-tone watches, bronze also made a comeback, maybe we are back in a time where, in general, “materials” are back in front. From ceramic to titanium and bronze to new materials like Tantalum we can observe a focus on materials to differentiate…