Monthly Archives: March 2010

introducing: Essex watches

Posted on March 29th, 2010

Editor TLex of prominent diving watch blog OceanicTime has some exclusive information about Essex, a new watch company offering two saturation-diving watches using Swiss ETa movements and built in Germany. «A technical engineer with an eye for style, Rainer Brändlein founded Essex in 2007 as an exclusive watch brand for today’s active gentleman.» Read more [...]

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Prometheus Recon 5

Posted on March 26th, 2010

Having had a very humble start with a Chinese-made chronograph based on a Chinese Valjoux 7750 clone, Prometheus has moved to Swiss quality with its second collection, a diving watch with inner rotating bezel. The young brand is now taking orders for its third collection, the Recon 5. The watch draws inspiration from WWII German aviator timepieces, [...]

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New Rolex Submariner with ceramic bezel

Posted on March 26th, 2010

It was due to happen sooner or later, and the only guess was “when”. After introducing its cerachrom ceramic bezel on the new GMT-Master II in 2006, Rolex applied the same technology to the Deep Sea, a new development released in 2008. This year, the brand finally unveiled the revamped version of it  legendary diving watch, the Submariner, featuring a cerachrom bezel and a laser-engraved [...]

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Eterna Super-Kontiki

Posted on March 23rd, 2010

Another brand to take heed of collectors is Eterna, who unveiled at Baselworl 2010 a re-edition of the Super-Kontiki, a diving watch popular on forums. The new Heritage Super-Kontiki comes on a Milanese mesh band, and features an extension that allows to wear it over a diving suit. This is a very good example of a brand tapping into [...]

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Tudor: vox populi, vox dei

Posted on March 22nd, 2010

“Voice of the people, voice of god” goes the century-old Latin expression, implying that the opinion of the people should be sovereign. Tudor seems to have taken heed by heavily drawing inspiration from their legendary chronograph collections, the Heritage.

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limited MKII Kingston

Posted on March 11th, 2010

Kingston… as in Kingston Jamaica. The country where fictious character James Bond, played for the first time by actor Sean Connery, is sent to investigate the death of a fellow British agent. In the 1962 movie, Sean Connery is show on several occasions wearing an early Rolex Submariner. According to I already have a watch.com editor [...]

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MKII now focusing on complete watches, drops selling parts

Posted on March 11th, 2010

This is not fresh news per se but Bill Yao (founder of legendary MKII watch company) announced on February 10th 2010 his decision to stop selling parts (dials, hands and case parts) to focus on complete watches only. Mr. Yao started his business by selling modding parts for ETA-based watches (mainly dials and hands), and success allowed him to [...]

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introducing: VDB watches

Posted on March 10th, 2010

The Purists forum features January 2010 pictures of a prototype made by a new German brand called “VDB”. The collection comes in diameter 46 mm and features a vintage GUB Spezimatic calibre. Click here to see the original post at ThePurists.com. Update: here is the link to their Web site.

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