Omega is a great brand. It doesn’t matter if you prefer new or vintage. It just is. However, if you’re buying a new one from an AD or boutique, the risk of buying a lemon is very low. Yes, you [...]

When you’re servicing a watch, you have two choices. Clean and reuse the old mainspring or fit a new one. Both options have their pros and cons. Pros You don’t need tools like mainspring [...]

No doubt you’ve seen a tachymeter scale on a watch. Probably on a chronograph. You can also find it on some time-only watches, but without the chronograph complication, it’s completely [...]

Specs Case Stainless steel Diameter without the crown 40mm Lug to lug 47mm Thickness 14.7mm including the domed crystal Movement Seiko NH35 automatic Lume Tinted Super Luminova on dial, hands, [...]

What is the cannon pinion? The cannon pinion connects the wheel train to the motion works. It’s also the post on which the minute hand is set on. If the cannon pinion is too tight, setting [...]

An enormous amount of watches is marketed as dive watches. Sure, they often have a brilliant water resistance rating, as well as a rotating bezel to keep track of the time. However, many of them [...]

This Hamilton did run, but it didn’t keep time, the amplitude was very low, and it had a power reserve of only a few hours. If you wound it, you could feel and hear the mainspring slipping, [...]

If you browse forums, and perhaps also Instagram, you have surely noticed a number of vintage watches described as tre tacche or sei tacche. While Italian nicknames for watches seem to be wildly [...]

You’re cleaning up and going through drawers, and suddenly you find a watch. It might have been from a loved one who’s passed away. Sometimes, nobody has a clue whose watch it was and [...]

So, you’ve bought a watch with a sapphire crystal. You’ve knocked it accidentally against a wall, a door frame, whatever. And, it’s scratched. But how could this have happened?! It’s sapphire; [...]