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Horological Meandering: No regrets, but...

I have sold about 10 watches since 2004. They came from a wide variety of brands - Seiko, JLC, Zenith, Panerai, Maurice Lacroix, Chronoswiss, Sinn, and Oris. All of them were let go to create room in my collection. There were no regrets, but I was upset to see a JLC AMVOX 1 I once owned, was resold
9Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Audemars Piguet: Many congrats...

I tried it on when I was at the Ginza boutique a few weeks ago. I thought it looks good on my wrist, but wife thinks my ceramic diver with the black color looks better on my fair color skin. Blue
9Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Horological Meandering: The reason the watch appears to run slow...

I purchased 3 Sistem 51 watches from the Swatch Ginza boutique 3 weeks ago. On all of them, I saw the minute hand always takes a full minute before it starts to track the time when you're done setting the time and pushing the crown in. So whenever I set the time, I always set the hands pointing one
9Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Horological Meandering: This AP is the only 2013 release I picked up this year...

I wanted to add another ceramic watch to my collection. My 1st was the Panerai 317K. Picture below: I always liked the AP steel diver, as soon as the ceramic diver was announced, I thought I finally found a AP that I would consider a must-have. The different finishes (I counted 3 - polished ceramic
10Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Horological Meandering: No, they do not...

When I travel, I just want to know the local time and the time at home quickly. I can always look up the day of the week from my cell phone, or ask my wife, etc.... OTOH, I know I'm not a fan of busy dials. I find the dial on my Oris busy enough already. (It was one of my earliest more innocent purc
10Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Horological Meandering: I'm lazy. I just push buttons on these watches...

...when I travel across time zones. Oris Flight Timer LE automatic. Push the + and - buttons to increment / decrement the hour hand. Seiko Astron GPS Solar. Push and hold the button at 2 o'clock for 6 seconds to detect and correct time for the current location. Blue
10Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Jaeger-LeCoultre: Here's mine...

10Y
By: Blue_Orca
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Jaeger-LeCoultre: Has these photos been doctored?

Where's the JLC logo and the 300M water resistance wording on the alarm disc? Blue
10Y
By: Blue_Orca
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