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A Historical Horology Roundup for August 23, 2015
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A Historical Horology Roundup for August 23, 2015

Patrick Kansa By Patrick Kansa

The Historical History series has one that has become a good bit more infrequent, and I have played around with some different ways of approaching it in the more recent appearances. Today is another experiment, one that I hope you will find a bit easier to consume. It’s a bit more of a roundup (rather like our Saturday posts), and gives you some bite-size summaries into some deeper topics. Today, we have articles covering watches that Elvis Presley owned, an editorial about the earliest form of chronograph, and then an article about the very first watch created by Giulio Papi.

Introducing the Limited Edition MeisterSinger Benjamin Franklin Watch
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Introducing the Limited Edition MeisterSinger Benjamin Franklin Watch

Patrick Kansa By Patrick Kansa

When it comes to MeisterSinger, most people immediately think of their single-hand watches. While that particular style is not to my own preferences, I have become a fan of their models that also incorporate a jump hour complication. This of course keeps the single hand aesthetic while still giving you accurate time telling. While that is certainly what I would opt for, their latest model – the MeisterSinger Benjamin Franklin – offers up something rather more intriguing.

Deep Blue Sun Diver 1K, More Meters per Dollar
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Deep Blue Sun Diver 1K, More Meters per Dollar

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

Overbuilt dive watches are not very rare. Inexpensive dive watches, even ones with automatic movements are not super hard to come across. But an overbuilt diver for less than $250 (currently on sale), those are not all that common. But this is what we find with the Deep Blue Sun Diver 1K dive watch. Patrick has looked at a couple of Deep Blue watches previously, but all have been north of $500.

Christopher Ward C8 Flyer Collection, a non-Flieger Flyer
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Christopher Ward C8 Flyer Collection, a non-Flieger Flyer

Matt Himmelstein By Matt Himmelstein

Christoper Ward C8 01 Christopher Ward is one of our favorite brands here at WWR. They produce high quality watches, sell direct, and are generally priced fairly. They are also vary their designs, so there is something to fit most everyone’s taste, and they cover different sizes. Of late, we have featured their diving watches, a number of auto-inspired watches, and dress watches, but we haven’t done an aviation inspired watch in a while. I love my C11 (I own one of these), but the new Christopher Ward C8 Flyer Collection goes away from the instrument style case and back to the more traditional round case.

Introducing the Obris Morgan Explorer II
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Introducing the Obris Morgan Explorer II

Patrick Kansa By Patrick Kansa

In the course of writing about affordable watches here at WWR, we very often come across new brands, and we write about a good number of them. Sometimes those freshman outings are not the greatest. The issues we see can often be overlooked given the price points that things come in at, and we call out what we see as oversights in a model. While not totally uncommon, it is more rare that we continue to be in contact with a brand, and see a marked contrast (and improvement) in what is being offered. That is precisely what we have here today with the Obris Morgan Explorer II.

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