Category Archives: Unitas 649X

introducing: Buttes Watch Company

Posted on October 17th, 2010

Hat tip to Watchipedia Blog. NOTE: Before any English speaker starts cracking jokes, Buttes is pronounced with a U like in the adjective sure and the noun brochure. The last three letters T-E-S are left silent. It is a Swiss village in remote Val de Travers valley, close to the French border. BWC was founded in [...]

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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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New Prometheus Manta Ray

Posted on September 10th, 2010

TLex of OceanicTime has exclusive footage of the new Manta Ray from Prometheus. Prometheus started with a collection based on an Asian Valjoux 7750 clone. The founder had the inspiration to involve forumers in the design of his second collection, Ocean Diver, which met with great success. After an Ocean Diver with extra 24h hand, [...]

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Introducing: Caudron watches

Posted on September 10th, 2010

Based in France, Caudron watches pays tribute to the Caudron brothers. The two Frenchmen pioneered aviation, founded the World’s very first flight school and designed some of the planes that flew in WWI and WWII. Hergé, creator of comic stip character Tintin, took inspiration from one of the Caudron brothers plane in his Joe & Zette [...]

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Introducing: Rheinmeister

Posted on September 3rd, 2010

Born in 1971 in Köln, Germany, master watchmaker Dirk Maier went to work within the Swatch Group (Omega, Longines and Rado) before starting his own business. He registered the brand Rheinmeister by taking cues from the Rhein (Rhine), one of the most important European rivers that serves as natural border between Switzerland and Germany. Maier tries to [...]

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Introducing: Karl Falk

Posted on August 31st, 2010

Germany-based Karl Falk sells watches that feature a single hand. There is an online store (Singlehandwatch.com) dedicated to the genre. Karl Falk is featured there alongside another brand like Defakto, but award-winning Meistersinger is missing from the Web site list. Back to Karl Falk. The brand’s name is that of a 19th century watchmaker. Their flagship and [...]

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Introducing: Azimuth

Posted on August 23rd, 2010

Azimuth somehow managed to source new old stock vintage movements such as the Fontainemelon 96 and a Marvin/Election hand-wound calibre. They took extreme care in designing limited series of military watch homages that met great success. Featuring vintage movements or modified contemporary UNITAS calibres, those timepieces boast a good reputation and now count amongst the very few watches that [...]

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introducing: Getat Watch Company

Posted on August 20th, 2010

Getat Watch Company is an e-store run by a watchmaker who specialized in custom watches and parts inspired by military timepieces of the Pact of Steel countries, namingly German and Italian. Unlike most eBay sellers, Getat Watch ensures that all dials are coated with Swiss luminous compounds. The cases are available in different sizes and with different surface finish. [...]

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introducing: the Retrospect Watch Company

Posted on August 20th, 2010

The Retrospect Watch Company has been operating for a couple of years now. I remember visiting their homepage and seeing sneak peak pictures of the Egiziano, which was under development at the time. RWC define their mission as bringing «legendary timepieces, improv(ing) upon them and reincarnat(ing) them into the modern world.» The RWC Egiziano draws inspiration from the GPF 2/56, [...]

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Introducing: Bathys Hawaii

Posted on August 19th, 2010

Since the launch of this blog, we have omitted to present Bathys Hawaii because they originally only featured battery-powered quartz watches. In the meantime, the Hawaii-based brand has released the the Benthic Automatic and the 100 Fathoms Automatic, two collections motorized with the ubiquitous ETA 2824-2. The recognizable Bathis Hawaii dial, with even numerals, emulates vintages military watches [...]

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