Author: southslope.nyc

Owner Review: Yema Superman – It’s French so It Must be Good

Once upon a time, France was at the world’s epicenter of horology — so, they must know a thing or two about watchmaking, oui? Yema is one of the brands that looks to carry on the French watchmaking tradition. Founded in 1948, they produced some pretty iconic sailing, diving, and racing watches — even supplying…
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02/10/2020
Owner Review: Sears Tradition Skin Diver – A 1970s Cult Classic

If your parents ever dragged you to the local Sears department store for back-to-school supplies in the 1970s, somewhere among the endless racks of discounted tie-dye shirts and bell-bottom jeans, you may have seen this handsome Sears Tradition Skin Diver sitting in a display case. “Tradition” was Sears Roebuck’s private label for their line of…
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06/09/2020
Owner Review: Ollech Wajs P-101 – The Rebirth of Cool

Ollech & Wajs (pronounced: “Oh-leck and Vice”) may not be a brand most people are familiar with. Established in Zurich in 1956, OW enjoyed quite a bit of success selling precision tool and dive watches via mail-order catalogs and military PXs during the time of the Vietnam War; Digging through their back-catalog, it’s not hard…
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02/08/2020
Owner Review: Pac-man Game Watch – I ❤️ the 80’s

In the early 1980’s, Pac-Man fever was rapidly spreading across the land. From its humble beginnings as a simple arcade game, it spawned a massive sprawling empire which, at its peak, included home console titles, a Saturday morning cartoon, a breakfast cereal, …and game watches. In 1982, a relative newcomer to consumer electronics, Nelsonic, secured…
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18/07/2020
Owner Review: Seiko 7018-7000 Flyback Chronograph

The sweet exterior demeanor of this beautiful 1971 Seiko 7018-7000 Flyback Chronograph belies the technical powerhouse within; a bi-directional automatic winding, vertical-clutch, column-wheel, flyback chronograph with a Kanji day/date complication that held the record for world’s thinnest until 1987. It really does pack quite the punch. That was quite a mouthful so let’s unpack it…
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29/06/2020
Owner Review: Caravelle Sea Hunter – The Devil you don’t know

Throughout the 1960’s and 70’s, Bulova manufactured quality affordable skin divers under their “Caravelle” sub-brand. The basic idea was to apply Bulova’s QC process to assembly lines outside of Switzerland using non-Swiss movements to keep costs down. The Caravelle Sea Hunter is a close cousin of Bulova’s infamous “Devil Diver” of the same era, these…
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04/06/2020
Owner Review: King Seiko 5626-7041 – Gone but never forgotten

Ah, King Seiko 5626-7041. You may have lost your battle with Grand Seiko but you still won my heart. ❤️ In the 1960’s, Seiko was on a mission to disrupt Swiss watchmaking. To accelerate innovation, Seiko split into two completely independent subsidiaries, pitted against each other in a race to produce the finest watches capable of…
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06/05/2020