Watches, Stories, and Gear: Isolated Living in the Redwoods, Tips for Your Video Calls, and General Patton’s WC57 Goes to Auction - luxury watch

Watches, Stories, and Gear: Isolated Living in the Redwoods, Tips for Your Video Calls, and General Patton’s WC57 Goes to Auction



?Watches, Stories, and Gear? is a roundup of some of our favorite watch content on Worn & Wound, great stories from around the web, and cool gear that we?ve got our eye on.
This installment of ?Watches, Stories, and Gear? is brought to you by the Windup Watch Shop.

Worn & Wound

Affordable Vintage: King Seiko Ref. 5621-7020, and Some Things to Consider When Buying King Seiko 

On this week?s Worn & Wound podcast, we dove deep into the latest new releases from Seiko and Grand Seiko. But if you love Japanese and vintage is more your bag, we?ve got you covered. Check out this entry in the Affordable Vintage series from back in 2018, where contributor ZQ Chia takes us on a tour of his own King Seiko 5621-7020, and provides some useful tips on shopping for your own vintage Grand or King Seiko. Read it here

The New York Times Magazine

The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic

If you came of age during the 80s or 90s, there?s an extremely high probability that your first exposure to certain major popular music hits wasn?t those hits themselves, but the incredibly popular parodies of those songs by Weird Al Yankovic. Over a career that has spanned four decades, Weird Al has ingrained himself into popular culture like few artists have. In this profile in the New York Times Magazine, we get an intimate look at Weird Al?s life, and it might surprise some just how normal he actually is. 
Read it here

 

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Hands-on – The Patek Philippe Alarm Travel Time 5520RG Ups Its Elegance with a (sort of) Two-Tone Case

30-04-2024 05:13 - ( Luxury Watch )

Eberhard & Co. Debut Two New Chronographs at their First Watches & Wonders

Earlier this month at Watches & Wonders in Geneva, Eberhard & Co. unveiled two new chronographs, expanding its 1887 line-up, first developed in 2019. The Swiss brand unveiled both the Chronographe 1887 Édition Limitée and the Chronographe 1887...
30-04-2024 05:10 - ( Luxury Watch )

Hanhart Introduces the New Limited Production Preventor9

There is something undeniable about a blacked-out pilot?s watch. I don?t know exactly what makes the recipe work so well, but you don?t have to look far to see that it does. From that perspective, it?s no wonder that it?s a formula Hanhart, a...
30-04-2024 05:10 - ( Luxury Watch )

Hands-On: The Nivada Grenchen F77 Lapis Lazuli

Nivada Grenchen?s F77 was a big hit when it was released last year. With an integrated bracelet, 37mm case, and exposed-screw bezel, the F77 captured all the fun of 1970s sports watches. Even better, this was no mere homage: the watch has...
30-04-2024 05:10 - ( Luxury Watch )

IFL Watches Introduces The Limited Edition Citizen Tsuyosa Automatic Free Willie

IFL Watches keeps surprising us with creative new dial variations for its releases. This time, the Stockhlom-based brand delves into the Disney archives and celebrates the joyous spirit of Mickey Mouse. To be more exact, the brand celebrates the...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

Pre-Owned Spotlight: Neo-Vintage Luxury Sports Watches Under ?3,000 ? Including Cartier, Bvlgari, Girard-Perregaux, And More

Sometimes viewed as a low point in watch design, the late ’90s and early ’00s saw some great watch designs emerge. Today, a select handful offer huge bargains in the pre-owned market and neo-vintage luxury for small sums. As long as you don’t...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

Start The Week With A Bang ? A Hublot Big Bang Unico Dark Green Ceramic 42mm

Green is the color of money, right" If so, shouldn?t green also be the most expensive color" Well, it isn?t at Hublot. The new Hublot Big Bang Unico Dark Green Ceramic 42mm costs ?5,800 less than the same watch in orange. Hublot explained why...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

Pre-Owned Spotlight: Jumping-Hour Watches From Bell & Ross, Gérald Genta, And Breguet

For some reason, watches with a jumping-hour complication always intrigue me. The fact that they don’t necessarily need to have traditional hands inspires designers to do things differently. They come up with original ways of displaying the time....
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

The New Certina DS-7 Chrono Padel Edition By Marta Ortega

The Certina DS-7 Chrono Padel Edition by Marta Ortega sheds light on a sport that has recently come to my attention. Padel is a big deal! Now the sport has a watch celebrating one of its most popular players. Marta also had a hand in designing the...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

Ariel’s Thoughts: Why Do People Like Watches"

Most of the people who visit aBlogtoWatch already have an interest in timepieces, so it can become easy to take for granted why we like this stuff. Most of the time when I write about watches, it is for an audience of people who already consider...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

Hands-On: Singer Reimagined Divetrack Chronograph Watch

Dive watches are easily one of the most popular styles of timepieces, although it?s hardly a secret that a mechanical dive watch offers few practical applications in today?s world of high-tech dive computers. For the most part, a traditional dive...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

SUPERLATIVE: Andrew Siegel Of Hamilton Jewelers

This week on the  Superlative Podcast, our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Andrew Siegel, the COO of Hamilton Jewelers. To start the show, Ariel has Andrew dive into the history of Hamilton Jewelers and how they have always...
30-04-2024 05:09 - ( Luxury Watch )

Recap – The Best of Indie Watchmaking at Watches and Wonders 2024 and The Geneva Week

Watches and Wonders 2024 and The Geneva Watch Week are now far behind us… But it’s the perfect time to look back, with more relaxed minds, at the best watches we’ve seen around town. These fairs are primarily bringing the spotlight on large...
29-04-2024 05:07 - ( Luxury Watch )
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