Virata, the little watch company from Ohio, just sent me a prototype of their latest piece and I have to say I’m impressed. When I first wrote about the pieces I had just spoken to their creator, a dude named Patrick Wacks from Canton, Ohio. Wacks was inspired by Formula 1 racers and decided to test his engineering mettle by becoming a watchmaker. He succeeded.
As you might imagine, we here at WWR are truly spoiled for choice when it comes to what we are going to cover. While a lot of it comes from relationships we’ve established with brands, some true surprises come out of a cold contact from a brand that we’ve not heard of. One of these recently came in from Hong Kong, in the form of the Greyhours Essential collection.
Saw this pop up in my email, and thought I’d share it, as it looks like a pretty sweet gig if you win it! Head on over here to get your entry in; big thanks to Original Grain for putting this contest together!
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Hey ladies! Omega is turning its gimlet eye towards you these days with the Seamaster Aqua Terra…
Hey, so you know how earlier today we gave you a hands-on look at what the relaunched Ballast watches are going to look like? Well, coincidental as it may be, Touch of Modern has a sale running on a bunch of the current Ballast models. They may not have that slick bezel interface, but a lot of the styling cues remain the same, with pricing starting off at $159.
We have reviewed watches from all variety of brands, and it is interesting to see the differences when you compare watches that come out of the same family (of brands). Take, for instance, Ballast, who would count Earnshaw and AVI-8 as stablemates. Looking across the lines at a high level, there is no sense of “badge engineering” going on. No, the watches are different, and each brand has their own style. Then you get to something like the Ballast Trafalgar, and you really do have something different.
Thank you for stopping by to check out our regular Sunday feature, Watching the Web, where we find interesting watch related videos and then share them with you. For today’s installment, Hodenkee takes us on a tour of Nomos Glashütte, we have a couple of videos from RGM, a video on dial making, and finally a tour of the Alpina factory.
Welcome and thanks for dropping in to our weekly Saturday feature, Watching the Web. We here at WWR take the time every week to scour the internet so you don’t have to, and then we bring the most interesting (at least to us) news and reviews to you, all in one place. We also take a moment to recap our own popular articles over the past week. Today, I wanted to look at the Hublot MP-07, new releases from Tissot, and an extended look at the Glycine Airman No. 1. From our pages, we have watches from Brathwait, Vilhelm, and Valachia.
WT Author is one of those brands that I’ve been pleasantly surprised to run across. They have been creating watches unlike what we had seen prior (at least in the modern era of watches), and they have an overarching plan (and timeline) for how their total collection will play out. We saw it start off with the WT Author 1905 (link), then move on to the 1914 (link), and most recently, the 1929 (link). While we had been able to provide hands-on impressions of the latter two models, that first had been limited to just the pictures we had seen, and viewing it through the lens of the design cues that carried forward onto the subsequent models. As fortune would have it, we were able to work with WT Author to have a WT Author 1905 sent over, so let’s travel back in time and have a look at what it offers.
