Seiko
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Celebrate Summer with the D1 Milano Deep Blue Subacqueo!
As the beautiful season is fast approaching, here is a very nice watch to wear on your next vacation spot: the D1 Milano Deep Blue Subacqueo, a 43.5 mm “diver” water resistant to 300 meters with internal rotating flange, equipped with a Seiko automatic caliber and excellent value for money at less than 500 euros!…
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Automatic Diving Watches: Introducing the Fleux FLX001 & FLX002.
Diving watches…vintage…all add up to a particular type of watch that may or may not suit your particular watchmaking tastes. But if so, I look forward to telling you about Flow. No, not the home decor store, but a brand new watch brand that comes to us from the Canada. Ed Chothe founder, is a…
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Choose Seiko’s Macchina Sportiva range for a sophisticated and affordable sober style.
If you are looking for a Japanese watch, and of unparalleled elegance, then it is likely that you will fall for Seiko brand watches. This brand created in 1881 has, over the years, developed to become a reference not national, but international. With their products made according to the rules of the art of watchmaking,…
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Proven by Four: Seiko 5 Sports 38 mm
The main watch brands have finally understood that small cases are increasingly popular with the general public. This time, Seiko is offering a new version of its Seiko 5 Sports with a 38mm case. Four dial colors are available. A guaranteed future hit? Most certainly, especially considering its price of 350 €. Four colored dials…
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The YEMA Rallygraf Meca-quartz: beautiful but a little too wise…
Discover the new Rallygraf Meca-Quartz from YEMA. The new version of a legendary watch that made the great hours of French-speaking watchmaking. Our opinion on the Rallygraf Meca-Quartz coming out today. The Rallygraf, an iconic YEMA watch Founded in 1948 by the brilliant Henri Louis Belmont, YEMA has long rivaled the most beautiful Swiss brands…
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Our favorites from Watches & Wonders 2023
A new year, a new good vintage. For the 2023 edition of Watches & Wonders, some manufacturers have outdone themselves while others have rested on their laurels. Some watches have stolen the hearts of watch lovers, sometimes in the simplest of ways. Like what there is no point in reinventing the wheel – at least…
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Swiss Watches vs. German Watches. Which Country Offers More? Pro and Cons.
Welcome to case back watches my name is tim and in this episode i’d like to cover the topic swiss or germany you saw swiss made or made in germany and this was a request of a viewer he’d like to know my opinion or my my favorites made watches made in germany or Watches…
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Interview with Arnaud Pézeron, founder of SYE [Start Your Engine]
Swiss Made Watch offers a section called “Interview with” which provides an update on the activities of a player in the watch market. After François Moreau, the CEO and founder of RESERVOIR Watch, Nicolas Boutherin, the co-founder and artistic director of the Klokers brand, Yohan Bizy, the Managing Director France of Frédérique Constant, Vincent Coquet,…
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The Rise of Japanese Watches (& How the Swiss Lost)
At the time of Japan’s opening up, almost all of the world’s watches came from either the United States or Switzerland. The Swiss sought to keep their secrets from leaking out to other countries. But those secrets still got out, and with them Japan became one of the biggest makers of watches in the world.…
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Are Swiss Watches Really Better Than Japanese Watches?
For a long time the swiss were historically considered to be the best watchmakers but this narrative changed greatly during the mid 20th century had the japanese not proven their metal as skillful watchmaking people the swiss monopoly over the watchmaking industry would have been impossible to overthrow today watch lovers all across the world…
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Seiko Diver drowned, the 2 fatal errors
Learning from your mistakes is good, but learning from the mistakes of others is much better. Today we are faced with a best-selling Seiko diving watch, the Samurai, here in a limited Blue Lagoon edition released in 2017. I was entrusted with this watch which took on water after a swim. Here is the Samurai…
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Seiko Prospex SPB381, SPB383 and SPB385: the first GMT divers
Last summer, Seiko offered a GMT version of its Seiko Sports 5 for the first time; This year, a GMT version of its mechanical divers from the Prospex range is available for sale. With the Prospex SPB381, SPB383 and SPB385, three models of GMT divers are more specifically announced, the first two in the regular…
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Seiko Turtle 6306-7001: The beast from Japan
The story of Seiko’s legendary vintage diver’s watch, the Turtle Diver 6306-7001 In the world of vintage Seiko divers, some are myths and become as desirable as they are difficult to find for ” Seikoholics “.The Turtle 6306 clearly falls into this category. Between 1965 and 1975, Seiko brilliantly designed and produced three generations of…
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A look back at the most beautiful watches at Baselworld 2019!
Baselworld is the biggest watch fair of the year organized in the world and which takes place in Switzerland. Since 1925, it has hosted the most beautiful watches in the world at each edition, with more than 45 countries represented. For the 2019 edition, we have listed the most beautiful watches that stood out during…
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Seiko Walt Disney Mechanical: Collector in power!
The meeting of two powerful universes The first Disney watch was born in 1933 in Connecticut during the Great Depression in the Waterbury Clock Company watchmaking workshop under license from Ingersoll. And guess what? Mickey sells!This cheap watch saves the watch company from bankruptcy. It was sold for $3.25 or around €55 today.Finally until 1944…
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New Watches & Wonders 2023
Your eternal subscriber for the 2023 novelties of the Watches & Wonders show is back in Geneva to present you all the new watches of the 2023 vintage, brand after brand. Do not hesitate to follow us on our YouTube channel and our Instagram account to find all our content. Last year Grand Seiko offered…
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Seiko SKX vs. SRPD: The 7 Differences Game
A mythical watch against a new contender for this title? Ah the Seiko SKX… A watch loved by a large majority of collectors! How many terabytes of SKX wristshots are there on Instagram, Facebook or forums? Both are huge commercial successes, but which one will win your heart? The version born in 1996 or the…
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Broke Seiko Quartz: Trash?
Yes ladies and gentlemen, you can maintain a quartz movement! Of course there is a quartz watch and a quartz watch! The quartz watch appeared in Tokyo on December 25, 1960. It was the birth of the Astron by Seiko. 100 copies with a gold case at the sweet price of ¥450,000, a brand new…