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	<description>blog about affordable custom watches, from one-off timepieces to small series</description>
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		<title>introducing: OFFSHORE Professional Classic Chronographs</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/05/15/introducing-offshore-professional-classic-chronographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: How many engineers does it take to design a watch? Answer: One Working above some of the deepest oil fields across the world , Lorne Gifford often finds himself in extremely hostile climates and environments. Having wreked several watches himself, the professional subsea engineer decided to create OFFSHORE Professional Classic Chronographs Ltd. to design timepieces that could withstand his extreme lifestyle. The result is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Prometheus Collections</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/04/24/new-prometheus-collections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amongst micro-brands, Prometheus (www.prometheuswatch.com) is very prolific. After the Ocean Diver, Recon 5 and Manta Ray, this microbrew brand has been expanding their collection range with new additions: Baiji Featuring tritium vials, this nautical watch uses an ST2130 movement made by Tianjin Seagull. Tritium vials use the radioactive decay of tritium to keep the compound shining. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>introducing: Tiburon Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/04/23/introducing-tiburon-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/04/23/introducing-tiburon-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Based in Barcelona, Spain, watchmaker Sergio Fernandez Pons named his company after the Spanish name of a shark species: Tiburón Watch. The brand&#8217;s mission is to offer high quality diver, dual-time, military and classic watches. Their motto is &#8220;Swiss Heart and Barcelona Design&#8221;. Their first collection, the HammerHead Shark, is built in Germany and features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>introducing: Resum watch store</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/19/introducing-resum-watch-store/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/19/introducing-resum-watch-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aftermarket parts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I purchased a low-cost nautical watch from the Military Watch Mall on eBay. It appears the store owner has since opened an online store on the Vendio portal. The new store features wrist watches, straps, dials and other types of accessories related to watches.]]></description>
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		<title>BaselWorld 2012: Tudor&#8217;s interpretation of their famous Snowflake diver&#8217;s watch</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/baselworld-2012-tudors-interpretation-of-their-famous-snowflake-divers-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/baselworld-2012-tudors-interpretation-of-their-famous-snowflake-divers-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides their vintage-inspired Heritage Black Bay, Rolex&#8217;es sister brand Tudor has been working on the Pelagos, a contemporary re-interpretation of their iconic 7016/0 and 7021/0 models from the late 1960&#8242;s. It seems that Tudor developers have been keeping an eye on the custom watch community, because this contemporary model has everything to make the mose demanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Vintage-Inspired Watch From Tudor</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/new-vintage-inspired-watch-from-tudor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/new-vintage-inspired-watch-from-tudor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pictures had already been released on the Web last week, but Rolex&#8217;es sister company Tudor is officially introducing the Heritage Black Bay now. The 41 mm timepiece is a new nautical watch inspired by a model from 1954, contemporary to the legendary Turn-o-graph that preceded the iconic Submariner. This makes it the third piece in Tudor&#8217;s recent Heritage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BaselWorld 2012: Serious Diver&#8217;s Chronograph from Certina</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/baselworld-2012-serious-divers-chronograph-from-certina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/baselworld-2012-serious-divers-chronograph-from-certina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ISO-certified]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valjoux 7753]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valjoux 775X]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Certina regaled us with an ISO 6425-certified three-hands Professional Diver&#8217;s watch. This year, the brand decided to adapt the case construction to accomodate a variant of the ubiquitous 7750 workhorse. The new DS action diver measures 45.2 mm of diameter and complies with ISO 6425. This means that every single watch goes through stringent testing before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimalistic watches from World Heritage capital of Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/minimalistic-watches-from-world-heritage-capital-of-scotland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/03/07/minimalistic-watches-from-world-heritage-capital-of-scotland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[forum watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unitas 649X]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Born and raised in Scotland, designer Fraser Gordon has been working as an architectural model maker and collecting entry-price quartz and mechanical watches in capital Edinburgh. For more than a decade, Fraser kept throwing ideas on paper from digital watches to physics-bending ideas, until he decided to go back to fundamentals: less is more. The Scottish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BARIGO Penta 55, a minimalistic meteorological wrist instrument</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/02/17/barigo-penta-55-a-minimalistic-meteorological-wrist-instrument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/02/17/barigo-penta-55-a-minimalistic-meteorological-wrist-instrument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.watchprojects.com/?p=3085</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to WristWatchReview.com. Founded in Southwestern Germany in 1926, BARIGO made a reputation for themselves with their quality weather instruments and altimeters. BARIGO instruments have found their place in ships, sailboats, museums or wine cellars. Thirty years ago, the company also started making mechanical analogue altimeters for skydivers, climbers and hikers. In the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New naval timepiece from Stølås Watch Company</title>
		<link>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/01/21/new-naval-timepiece-from-stolas-watch-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.watchprojects.com/2012/01/21/new-naval-timepiece-from-stolas-watch-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis J.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently visited the Stølås web site  and found out that the company is releasing a great-looking naval model, available to pre-order. Here is the teaser featured on their revamped Website at the time of writing: Preamble Back in June 2010, I wrote an introduction piece about Stølås, a young and fresh micro-brand named in honour of [...]]]></description>
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