Blog posts about Day-Date
Rolex Throws One To The Geeks
Press Day at Baselworld and elsewhere here on the blog, my colleague Dave Kaiten is rubbing my nose in the fact that he’s there and I’m not. Meanwhile, over at the Rolex booth… Calibre 3255 just landed. Rolex is touting the new movement as the first of a new generation. Twice the precision of an […]
Rolex’s Little Brother
Last week we touched on Tudor’s current releases, the Heritage Ranger and the Heritage Chrono Blue. These seemingly homage watches are actually extensions of popular watches of decades gone by. They represent the tip of a resurfacing iceberg. That of Tudor Watches, which in 2013 came back to US shores. Years and decades ago, Tudor […]
Sore Feet – Penance For Enjoying The Gem Shows
I saw so much stuff on Day One that I’m still writing it all down – and here I am at the end of the show. It’s time to go home but my feet are recovering. Picking up where we left off the other day, Inventory Adjusters is the 800 pound gorilla of selection at […]
Trends in Watches
Trends really don’t show themselves in watches the way they do in, say, clothing. The lead times are too long, and the investments too great to take such risks as “orange is the new black.” But, as British watch industry watcher James Gurney pointed out a few weeks ago, they do happen. They simply happen […]