Category: ORIENT

  • Owner Review: Orient Mako XL – Orange is the new black

    Owner Review: Orient Mako XL – Orange is the new black

    The Orient Mako XL has been around a few year now, but since the release of the Kano and Kamasu, it’s gotten even more affordable. With a total of five different variations, the black dial/orange bezel combo is by far my favorite one. The dial is matte black and the deep, metallic orange of the…

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  • Owner Review: Orient King Diver – May He Live Long

    Owner Review: Orient King Diver – May He Live Long

    I’m generally drawn to watches that are unique and tell a story. For these reasons, I collect mostly vintage watches. I do have a few modern pieces but even those carry forward vintage cues. I picked up my Weekly Auto Orient King Diver in August to mark five years with my company. Orient recently turned…

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  • Owner Review: Orient Triton – the swan song of the tool dive watch

    Owner Review: Orient Triton – the swan song of the tool dive watch

    The Times They Are a-Changin’. Watches are by no means a necessary instrument in today’s world – tool watches, even less. And when an item is no longer a necessity, it starts becoming luxury. The watch industry is a prime example of this and with even Seiko steadily increasing their prices and pushing into Swiss…

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  • Owner Review: Orient TY01V0B – A vintage homage of no such watch

    Owner Review: Orient TY01V0B – A vintage homage of no such watch

    The 70’s were a wild time indeed, and, even though marking a golden age for Japanese watch manufacturers such as Seiko and their younger brother, Orient, the never-ending stream of models at the time may be too wild to be universally accepted. So, Orient has made an attempt to re-invent those designs in their Neo…

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  • Owner Review: Orient Flight – Destined to fly

    Owner Review: Orient Flight – Destined to fly

    I bought the Orient Flight back in 2015 as my trophy for being promoted as a senior auditor working with a Big 4 firm. My watch journey started a year earlier in 2014 when I stumbled upon JJ Redick‘s (one of my favorite ballers) Talking Watches episode with Hodinkee, and then of course the legendary…

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  • Owner Review: Orient FFM03004B

    Owner Review: Orient FFM03004B

    The Orient collection of watches is a real treasure trove – as I’ve recently discovered – there’s so much more than the few popular offerings that we all know and love. One such piece is the rather unimaginatively titled FFM03004B – no fancy nickname for this one, unlike his more popular Orient brethren. The slide…

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