Tag: dress

Owner review: Ballon Bleu De Cartier

As a female with an interest in horology the Ballon Bleu De Cartier strikes a cord with me. I often get baffled by the lack of understanding that women, indeed, can enjoy both men’s and women’s watches. Often, a lady’s watch does not carry the same value as men’s, simply because it is perceived that…
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01/01/2022
Owner review: Rolex Day-Date Everose 36mm Eisenkissel Dial

Ask any watch collector about a Rolex and I’m sure some will tell you that the Rolex Day-Date is the epitome of what Rolex has to offer. The Day-Date is colloquially referred to as the Rolex President as a few US Presidents have been pictured wearing Day-Dates. While Rolex doesn’t specifically refer to Day-Dates as…
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27/12/2021
Owner review: Hamilton Jazzmaster Traveler GMT

The Hamilton Jazzmaster Traveler GMT totally challenged my notion that no watch is perfect. As watch enthusiasts, we are conditioned to know that no watch is perfect. Be it in the design or the features, there’s always something missing from a given piece. And no watch can have it all – it’s almost like an…
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09/12/2021
Owner review: Tissot PRX Powermatic 80

The Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 is a watch you can actually buy! We live in a world now of horological shortages which are affecting a number of high end Swiss watch brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, FP Journe, and even Vacheron Constantin. It doesn’t stop there. Even Tudor’s popular models such as…
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30/11/2021
Owner review: Glashütte Original PanoMaticLunar

What first attracted me to the Glashütte Original PanoMaticLunar was the movement – cal. 90-02. It is possibly the most well balanced automatic movement I’ve ever seen. It is not just the finish, which is of course immaculate, but the whole composition of the pretty big micro-rotor, that works perfectly with the ¾ plate. In comparison,…
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22/11/2021
Owner Review: Omega Constellation

The Omega Constellation is overlooked in the brands’ offerings. When we think about Omega the watches that immediately come to mind are the Seamaster and of course the iconic Speedmaster. The Constellation line has been in Omega’s catalog for more than half a century appearing for the first time in the 1950’s. The famous pie-pan dials…
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20/11/2021
Owner Review: A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 MoonPhase

The A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 MoonPhase is such a distinctive watch that marks A Lange & Sohne’s (“ALS”) revival in the 1990s with its unique decentralised and asymmetrical dial design, and of course, the outsize date display. A piece I’ve always wanted to add to my collection, and I’ve very pleased to share…
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16/11/2021
Owner review: Grand Seiko SBGW231

The Grand Seiko SBGW231 is part of my watch collecting “hobby” (reads: sickness)story. Like many, my obsession was spiralling out of control and my appetite for buying more watches grew by the day, I started consciously putting some roadblocks to prevent myself from acquiring new timepieces. At the time, Grand Seiko had been taking the…
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09/11/2021
Owner review: Omega De Ville

I can start by saying I’m a big Omega fan and not just because the Speedmaster was my first luxury watch or because Bond was my childhood dream life. Throughout the years Omega has somehow managed to find it’s way into Ethiopia, my homeland. From Ethiopian pocket watches, that I’ve previously reviewed here, to a…
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04/11/2021
Owner Review: Rolex Oyster Perpetual 114200

I’ve been collecting watches for a few years now, since just before the whole steel sports watch thing blew up and long before the Rolex Oyster Perpetual 114200 existed. I wish I could say that when I started out I bought a handful of Subs and left them boxed and stickered and have now sold…
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30/10/2021