Do you ever think about oxygen? The chances are you don’t really. I mean, under normal circumstances, you breathe the stuff subconsciously and automatically, and that’s it. But when you’re ascending the highest mountains on earth, oxygen is definitely on your mind. Or rather, the lack of it. The now-retired famous climber Reinhold Messner and […]

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Whenever I think of Eberhard & Co., it’s typically the brand’s sports and tool watches that first come to mind. Although function-packed chronographs and highly legible divers are certainly among the company’s core offerings, this is just one side of Eberhard’s catalog, and the Swiss-based brand is entirely capable of producing significantly more refined and […]

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One watch. Three ways to style it.

Fifty-three years ago, on April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 crew set course to the moon. What NASA astronauts James Lovell (Commander), Jack Swigert (Command Module pilot), and Fred Haise (Lunar Module Pilot) couldn’t know is that a major problem would occur just two days later. The Omega Speedmaster Professional played a vital role in […]

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  The Grand Seiko Tentagraph SLGC001 is the brand’s first-ever mechanical chronograph, and we would not have missed going hands-on with it at Watches & Wonders 2023. Built around the cutting-edge 9SA5 base caliber, it is a true Grand Seiko on the inside, while on the outside, it marks a distinct departure with rather toned-down […]

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It’s not often we get to sit down with a frog of this stature.

A few weeks ago, Vulcain presented its latest and greatest, the Chronograph 1970’s. A re-edition of a model from the past, this watch is a classic gem reborn. It has all the attributes that vintage fans love — a round case, pump pushers, 3-9 chronograph sub-dials, and five variations to choose from. The question is: […]

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This week on the Superlative podcast, our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Chris Mitchell, co-author with his wife, Pilar Guzmán, of Patina Modern. Ariel and Chris start the show reminiscing about Chris’s memories of the late Baselworld when he was a magazine publisher at publications such as GQ and Vanity Fair, among […]

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