Watch your Rolex
Rolex are almost like diamonds. Everyone recognizes a Rolex watch, many people want them, people will pay dollars for them, and lastly, nobody wants to pay top dollar for them. Like with diamonds, there is an underground market for stolen Rolexes and entry points are as easy to find as the local pawn shop. When […]
Kello for iPhone – A Portable Timing Machine
Many times when a watch lands with watchmaker, one of the first things they do is to put the watch on a timing machine. Timing machines measure one aspect of the watch’s health by measuring the balance wheel’s function, its amplitude, and how well the watch measures accurate time. Timing machines live with the watchmaker, […]
Swiss Seals and Certifications, and not necessarily for Rolex
Within the watch industry there are many seals and certifications to verify manufacturing provenance and accuracy. Horology’s long history includes certifications to insure that watches are as accurate as the marketers claim. Prior to GPS, telephone/telegraph, and atomic time keeping, time pieces were the only means for keeping trains synchronized and from running to each […]
Why There Are Not Any Waterproof Watches
Waterproof Or Water Resistant One watch concept that is hard to understand is the notion of a watch being “water resistant” to a particular depth. Rolex’s Deep Sea is “water resistant” to a depth greater than what a human can survive. Yet, they still do not consider the watch waterproof. Whether a watch was waterproof […]