Blog posts about Omega
Breakfast with a Fellow WIS
I had breakfast yesterday with a friend and fellow WIS (Watch Idiot Savant, for those of you who are curious and didn’t know). Since we live in the same city out in flyover country, we get together about once a month to commiserate and lament our lowly station in the Watch-iverse. Yesterday was no different. […]
Baselworld Social Media Buzz – Take 2
Last Thursday I wrote about the press day sensation that caused a major storm in social media – the Patek Philippe reference 5524G, the Calatrava Travel Time. This time, Omega caused the stir and the target – in the minds of the social media mavens – was none other than our own Rolex Datejust. The […]
Gawd, My Feet Hurt!
Day One at the Tucson gem shows is over. One day, and my feet are killing me! But my stomach is full of the best meat loaf and potatoes, not to mention dirty martini, we could find in Tucson. Two words: Claim Jumper. Broadway, just west of Alvernon. ‘nuf said. And lest you think I’m […]
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum – One museum you want to make time for.
Think of the Black Forest and you’d be forgiven for thinking primarily of gateau and (despite Orson Welles erroneously attributing its creation to the Swiss in The Third Man) the cuckoo clock. However, whilst the cuckoo clock did not originate in the Black Forest (there are references to these kinds of clocks that predate the […]