Monthly Archives: August 2009

introducing: Boschett timepieces

Posted on August 21st, 2009

Boschett timepieces currently offers three lines of diving watches: the Reef Ranger: rated at 30 BARRecognized by the International System of Units, BAR replaced ATM (atmosphere) as the standard unit of pressure. Interestingly, 1 BAR comes close to the air pressure at sea level; and roughly amounts to a column of 10 meter of sea [...]

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introducing: Ezteem timepieces

Posted on August 21st, 2009

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Ezteem timepieces (pronounced Essteem) offers two collections housing the ubiquitous Swiss ETA 2824-2 automatic caliber: the classical collection Lynx starts at SEK 8,200 and consists of a date, big date and dual time version. The water sports model Lynx Aqua starts at SEK 9,500. The watches are Swiss Made and the company has a list of distributors, two of which do sell the [...]

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When a homage becomes confused

Posted on August 20th, 2009

I couldn’t help notice that the Meisterart Militarisch D-Day is a bit of a conflicting homage: the watch honors both Europe’s invaders and liberators at the same time. The design is inspired by B-Uhren (abbreviation of BeobachtungsUhr = observation watch), the wartime tools built from 1942 onwards to help Germany conquer Europe. At the same time, [...]

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introducing: Kweather Wayne Group

Posted on August 20th, 2009

Founded by Norihisa Uenishi, Wayne Enterprises Co., Ltd. is a small business distributing watches under several trade marks, namingly: Prodive, diving watches on strap Meisterart, pilot watches Sea Monster, diving watches on bracelet Longio, a diving tourbillonWatch with the escapement housed in a cage that completes a revolution in a fixed amount of minutes.

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introducing: Kentex

Posted on August 20th, 2009

Based on his extensive experience as ODM and OEM, Japanese entrepreneur Kenji Hashimoto started to work in 1997 on a label under which he could produce fine watch with an emphasis on quality and good looks. Kentex was founded in 1989 to release limited niche watch series. After 10 years, the brand earned respectability amongst watch collectors [...]

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introducing: Fuller Watch Company

Posted on August 19th, 2009

After two and a half years of research and design the Tsunami is finally at the prototype stage. FullerWatch‘s goal was to create a dive watch with the classic looks of the Seiko 6309-7040, but with use of easily interchangeable Seiko parts from the 7s26 & 6r15 divers (SKX007 & SBDC001). Read more at OceanicTime.

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introducing: Praesto watches

Posted on August 19th, 2009

Praesto watches took the classical Fliegeruhr watch and asked US illustrator Russ Schwenkler to revamp it. The result is a 44 mm collection called the Modern Fliegeruhr Aviator. Find more about this upcoming watch on aBlogtoRead.com.

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introducing: Halios Watches

Posted on August 19th, 2009

Based in Vancouver, BC, Halios Watches offers the (now sold out) Holotype, a rugged diving watch starting at USD 325.00 and featuring a Japanes Miyota 8215 movement and Far-East parts. James Stacey and Ariel Adams have respectively written reviews for WatchReport and A Blog to Read.

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introducing: Raven Watch Company

Posted on August 7th, 2009

Raven Watch Company offers tactical watches using self-luminous Tritium vials for the dial indexes and the hands. Here is the company’s presentation: Raven produces the highest quality custom tactical watches. Our timepieces are made from a variety of parts including the high end Swiss made 25 jewel ETA 2824 mechanical automatic movement. This movement is [...]

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introducing: Plazeon

Posted on August 7th, 2009

Plazeon offers a Seagull-based chronograph using an original design. They use both the Seagull ST19 and the Seagull ST1901 with power reserve.

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