Category Archives: stock design

introducing: Premium Watches Pforzheim

Posted on November 3rd, 2010

Established as a Civil Law Partnership between German craftsmen located in the city of Pforzheim, Premium Watches offers a range of services of high interest to watch collectors. The partners can do a thorough restoration of timepieces, they can built and decorate a timepiece upon request, and they also have a range of personnalized and private label [...]

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introducing: Aeronautec watches

Posted on November 1st, 2010

Having been around since 2006, Aeronautec offers dressy and sporty mechanical watches. The founders have decided to connect the brand with aviation, as illustrated by the Website’s extensive use of beautiful photographs of aircafts. Aeronautec indiscriminately uses Swiss movements and their Asian clones, and the watches are mostly distributed throughout Germany for the time being. [...]

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introducing: Osirec

Posted on September 29th, 2010

Hat tip to Ariel Adams, columnist for Luxist.com. Having been bit by the fascination of their late father for Ancient Egypt, businessman Thierry Peter Savineau and brother Pascal started working in 2002 on a watch brand that would tap into Ancient Egypt’s esthetic and geometric riches. The brand OSIREC was successfully registered in the USA in September 2009 and in the European [...]

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introducing: Huguenin

Posted on September 22nd, 2010

Hat tip to Jason Heaton of Hodinkee.com. There is an extensive lineage of the Huguenin name in the history of Swiss watchmaking, which probably explains why the trade mark registration appears twice in Switzerland: once held by Faude & Huguenin AG and once by Vincent Huguenin. In the US, the mark had previously been registered by [...]

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introducing: PJS watches

Posted on September 15th, 2010

Hat tip to Watch Otaku. Based in South Korea, PJS aims at worlwide distribution. Their offer consists of quartz watches with tritium vials, and hand wind watches powered by the Seagull ST3900, a Unitas clone. PJS mechanical models are inspired by WWII Italian timepieces and German Beobachtungsuhren (observation watches). Mechanical watches start at USD 239.

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introducing: MMT500

Posted on September 13th, 2010

Several brands use official endorsment by armed forces as a sales pitch. One of them is Italy-based MMT500, with a flagship model allegedly being used by the national Marina Militare and the Comando Subacquei e Incursori “Teseo Tesei”. With 7458 km of coast, Italy ranks in the top 10 of countries with the highest military expenditure. Their Marina Militare (Military Navy) represents an [...]

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New Lindburgh & Benson nautical watch

Posted on August 23rd, 2010

Hat tip to Tlex of OceanicTime.com We have already discussed Lindburgh & Benson‘s brand of sports watches Schaumburg. The German watchmakers have recently released a new diving watch.   The Aquamatic III comes in 44 mm of diameter and features an inner rotating ring controlled by the stem at 2 o’clock. This is a system which efficiency is subject to caution: [...]

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introducing: Zenton Instruments

Posted on April 26th, 2010

TLex of OceanicTime published exclusive pictures of Zenton Instruments’ first collection. The case is rated at 200 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: Schaumburg Watch

Posted on February 16th, 2010

Schaumburg Watch is very prolific in the creation of traditional watches with highly hand-decorated dials and movements. As of late, they have also been adding sport and military-inspired collections to their catalogue. The beefier piece is the Aquamatic II, a 45 mm-wide saturation-diving chronometerSingle movements or watches that have passed a series of test meant [...]

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Introducing: Vigoria Miletto dive watch

Posted on October 23rd, 2009

tLex, the editor of diving watches resource OceanicTime recently took advantage of the discounts to acquire one of the VM (Vigoria Miletto) dive watches. VM is a new brand featuring diving and saturation diving watches. The designs are very angular and agressive, probably to suggest the watches’ imperviousness to water. At the time of writing, they give out big discounts on [...]

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