It’s Sunday, so that means it’s time for another edition of the Watch Video Rewind. In this series, we like to give you a break from reading all of our words, and let you feast your eyes on some interesting videos. Or in the case of today’s edition, a single video.
It’s a new month, and it’s the first Saturday, so that means it’s time for our regular feature, Watching the Web. In this series, we highlight interesting articles from other watch blogs, and recap our own top posts of the week. From the wider world of watches, we’ve got a DIY watch cabinet, a look at a collector’s Tissot, and watches worn by the just-landed Commander Kelly. From our own site, the Division Furtive Type 50 once again took the top spot; the latest TWCO and Junghans watches kept it company at the top of charts.
What country, friends, is this? Why Straputania, my lady. Novus, a new Kickstarter watch is aiming at the fashion-forward folks with their new Colborne, Churchill, Bremner, and Mayfield. All of them have quick-release straps and enough understated sexiness for me to accept that they contain Ronda quartz movements.
This has been quite the week for Visitor Watch Co. If you recall, I took at look at their inaugural offering, the Duneshore back in November of 2014. Since then, things have been in a bit of radio silence. Sure, the watch was available, but there had not been any word on a new model. Well, that silence has been broken, and in a big way. Starting on Monday of this week, Visitor Watch Co revealed a new product each day this week. Since the last item was revealed, I thought it worthwhile to take a look at everything that is coming out.
When it comes to chronographs there are two schools of thought. One school focuses on the platonic ideal, the watch the catapults you to the moon, dark-faced and simple. The other school loves the idea of the chronograph as robot, full of odd dials, weird movements, and four more buttons than needed. The Mercer Brigadier Chrono sits firmly and handsomely in the first camp.
The folks at Thomas Earnshaw have been nice enough to supply us with a few watches for reviews over the years, and for the WWR March Giveaway, I am going to pass on one of my review watches to you, our dear readers. I looked at the Thomas Earnshaw 1805 Grand Calendar almost a year ago, and thought it was a nice dress watch for the price. The watch has a lot going on, but it is still readable.
As you are no doubt aware, BaselWorld will be kicking off again here pretty soon, which means we will start seeing a lot more announcements about new models and versions. A lot of this comes from the luxury brands, and that is not really where we tend to dwell here at WWR. No, we like our watches affordable and interesting. Sure, the Junghans Meister Driver Handaufzug is not a sub-$500 indie watch, but this one certainly checks off a lot of boxes for me.
I have been waiting four years for the opportunity to do this topic for the Watch Video Rewind. OK, not really, but I do think that a compilation of videos featuring leaping/jumping hand watches would be apropos, considering we get an extra day in the year tomorrow with the leap year.
Here we are, the final weekend of February, and your regular Saturday feature, Watching the Web. We at WWR use this feature to point out some interesting watch related articles and reviews we come across when we check out other blogs, and we take a moment to look back at the more popular posts on our own site over the last week or so. From the wider blog-o-sphere, I wanted to point you to three new takes on smartwatches (and minus this, not a single mention of the Apple Watch). From our own site, you readers made our posts on the Division Furtive Type 50, some EDC storage solutions, a sale at Xetum, and the Squarestreet Aluminium the most read articles.
Who likes dive watches? You like dive watches. I like dive watches. Frankly, it seems, just about everyone likes dive watches. When they come from an popular indie brand with a combination of good looks and functionality? Well, that just about seems like a slam dunk. While the TWCO Sea Rescue Diver was first introduced in 2012, it focused on a higher-visibility color (in that case, yellow). Orange was the next logical step after that, and now its time for another refresh. This time around, the TWCO Sea Rescue Diver Tactical is going stealthy.
