Speedmaster 125

Hello, my friends. It’s been a long time since I’ve written on this site. I must say that I read you daily but from a discreet anonymity that I break today. Here’s my current watch collection. A vintage IWC is missing that I will show you later. Cordial g

Both the Ebel cal. 137 chronograph and the UN cal 32 perpetual calendar are based on the old Lémania cal. 1340 (with central minute hand, used in the Omega Speedmaster 125), not the 1350. UN and Ebel bought the exclusive rights on the cal. 1340 and commis

... that these are the watches which follow your recipe of "Funky": When on my wrist they make me feel a bit out of the ordinary, they make me feel in a good mood way, and I have fun and I do not take myself too seriously. I love your definition!! Don´t y

Thank you all for joining this week - a lot of great watches we didn't know or forgot about was shown! As for this week Watch of the Week: Runner up: rdenney with his Valjoux 7750 - unique with a very cool design! Second place: Subexplorer with his Speedm

Simply the Best? Ulysse Nardin GMT Perpetual in-depth review by Marcus Hanke (COMMENT: I wrote this review in 2004 and originally published it in three parts - download times were not as quick as they are today. Unfortunately, only part 3 can still be acc

An ave £3k per watch, so: 1) JLC Memovox - either with a classy black dial, or a funkier style 70's case. 2) Omega Speedmaster 125. 3) IWC Ingenieur 3521. 4) GP gyromatic hf (preferably no date) in SG. 5) Enicar Sherpa GMT / Traveler. Other than swimming

Same comment with the cairelli reedition or the plo prof, if you can wear one of them, then you can in my opinion wear a 44/45mm Breitling too unless its sits too high on the wrist or it is too big. Quality wise Breitling is a close match to Rolex, Omega

Albert Gustave Piguet was born in 1915 in Chez-Villard (Le Chenit), son of Henri Auguste Piguet and Mdm. Pellet. He was educated at the watchmaker's school in Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux. From 1934 he worked at Lemania in L'Orient in the office technology,

Last week, OMEGA celebrated the 60th anniversary of its legendary Speedmaster in Singapore with the Speedmaster 60th Anniversary Exhibition at Marina Bay Sands and a launch party held at Marina Bay Sands Art Science Museum. OMEGA’s astronauts also toured

... but we start with them... in chronological order: Oldest piece (I think) present was this 1959 'First in Space' model, brought along by a Viennese collector: Star of the evening: an ultra-rare 1967 Speedmaster Ultraman - on the wrist of Petros Protopa