Watch News, Reviews & Features With A Flavour of Scotland
Balor is a watch brand based in Switzerland that offers two models with Seiko VK64 hybrid movements. They are designed to resemble classic chronographs from much more expensive manufactures. The model I was sent to review (the Manifesto BLR1401) is one of the two models the company offers. Balor states…
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I will be honest, Creux Automatiq was not a brand that I was in any way familiar with before one of my friends @ian_cognito started posting pictures of their watches on Instagram. The Creux Automatiq Diamondback stood out for me in a sea of dive watches and dress watches. It…
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Every watch collection has a set of pre-decided categories that we feel like we need to fill. Dress watch, check. Weekend watch, check. Dive watch, check check check check…. You probably have more than one candidate for most of these slots that jockey for the starting position in your head…
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Rikki is flying solo to Englandshire, no chance I was going there. Rikki is joined by Joshua Flagg the man behind Watch It All About and The Watch It Show Christopher Ward were about. as were our friends at Art of Horology, can you tell that Rikki is looking for…
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Let’s call a spade a spade the big boys had a stinker in 2019. The flagship brands who we use as beacons to set the tone for the industry roundly disappointed us. Just look back to Baselworld, Rolex went all out to put a BLNR bezel on last years BLRO…
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Let chaos reign, this week with Robin and Floatlite. or as you know him better D.S Burns from the BIll. We look through the full range of Moritz Grossmann watches and a few more….some of them were these..but the lighting was so terrible that the photos are from Robins Instagram we…
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My Dubai Watch Week impressions. This is not a complete write up about what DWW has to offer and is – just my personal impressions on sessions I visited and my own 2cents. First and foremost – I cannot thank the lovely Seddiqi family enough for organizing this educational event,…
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On Seiko and the Future of Baselworld Seiko’s departure from Basel 2020 is a sad but unsurprising development in the show’s struggle for survival. On November 7th, Seiko and Grand Seiko announced their intention to withdraw from Baselworld 2020, after over 30 years with the long-running watches and jewelry trade…
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Over the last week, a massive sale from Watchfinder, one of the largest watch retailers in the UK and Europe sparked talk of the Rolex bubble bursting as several sought-after models went on sale on their website. Two popular YouTubers (Adrian from Bark & Jack, and Paul Thorpe) had very…
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Turning clickbait up to 11 with Rolex a Q and A and my new tractor the Rolex bubble is still doing good business, except for us. I am still wearing the Autark from Horage, no money has changed hands but Katlen has proved herself weak and relented and bought the…
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Blink and you’ll miss it! It’s Tuesday again and with it brings another instalment of #halfwatchtuesday! I do hope everyone is safe and well otherwise. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been given a date of this Friday to go under the knife and receive my titanium alloy…