The May 2017 WWR Giveaway: The Melbourne Watch Co Portsea Heritage
This month, we have an opportunity for you to win a Melbourne Watch Co Portsea Heritage. This is a watch…
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Can a watch be too thin? Hands-on with the Melbourne Watch Collins 38
A week with Melbourne Watch’s Collins 38 left me impressed with the details but underwhelmed with the value proposition. This…
A close look at the Melbourne Watch Company’s Sorrento, the dressy diver
The Melbourne Watch Company started out in 2013 and with the help of a successful crowdfunding campaign release their first…
Melbourne Watch Co Carlton Mecha-Quartz
Melbourne Watch Co is one of a handful of new watch companies that have embraced and excelled in the crowd-funding market, offering multiple time pieces and, more importantly, delivering a quality product to their backers. We have looked at all of their watches over the last few years, including a hands-on review of the Flinders. Their latest watch is the Melbourne Watch Works Carlton, a chronograph that utilizes a mecha-quartz movement.
Melbourne Watch Company Avalon, Take a Flight Down Under
The Melbourne Watch Company has graced our pages multiple times, starting with a preview and then hands on review of the Flinders, then the Hawthorne, and the Portsea, and finally the Parkville. Now this Australian watch company is back again on Kickstarter, with their take on the modern pilot’s watch, the Melbourne Watch Company Avalon.
Melbourne Watch Company Parkville, MWC goes compact
While the overall watch case design movement may be staying with the mid-40mm case, I have seen quite a few designs of late that are less than 40mm across, designed for me (or at least unisex) and are round. The Melbourne Watch Company Parkville automatic is just the most recent of these. Skipping the crowdfunded phase that started the brand’s previous efforts, the Parkville is being offered as a pre-order on their website, an encouraging sign that this young watchmaking firm has a strong enough following to sell direct.
The Melbourne Flinders – Up from Down Under
Melbourne Watch Company was kind enough to send over 2 copies of their Finders watch for me to wear for a while, one a black dial on a black strap, and the other a ‘white’ dial on a brown strap. Patrick wrote up the watch when it was still in the project phase on Indiegogo, so now it was my turn to get an impression of the watch. And, to cut to the chase, I liked it.
Getting Bold with the BOLDR Odyssey Diver
Based in Singapore, BOLDR Supply Co was founded by Travis, Leon, and Isa to create active urban wear watches. Their first…
No, a watch cannot be too thin
In Jim Manley’s write-up of the Melbourne Collins, he asked, “Can a watch be too thin?” I have a hypothesis:…
Introducing iKi Watches
We see new thin simple watch faces show up all the time. Just two days ago, Patrick said to me,…