This is a Nelka watch. Another one of those obscure brands from the 40s. According to Mikrolisk, Nelka is a Swiss brand from Biel, but I’d never heard of it. The movement is the AS 984. It did run but […]
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When it comes to watches, the rate is a very important if not the most important statistic. A watch might be very rare or beautiful but if it doesn’t keep accurate time, it’s basically useless. What exactly is the rate
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This is the third Roamer with an MST 372 movement on WahaWatches. That’s not surprising because I’ve serviced and repaired many Roamer watches and the MST 372 was a very successful movement that they used for a long time. It’s
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Another Pontiac on the bench. A lovely 1950s gold-plated dress watch with a two-tone or bullseye dial. It has an ETA 1260 movement that I encountered in a Pontiac before. In a gold-plated Pontiac Nageur to be exact. Most ETA
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This is an interview with Stefan Ketelaars. Stefan is one of those guys with a magic touch who can create anything he sets his mind to. He started with refurbishing vintage watches and then moved to skeletonizing existing watch movements.
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Ligne is one of those terms that you may have seen before but not knowing exactly what it means. I certainly had never heard of it before I became interested in watches and watchmaking. When I did read about it,
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