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Japan's Watch Revival: The Lexus Effect Japan's watches: Do they have what it takes? |
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Here's Why Seiko Should Be On Your Watch Radar, Starting Now For most Americans, Seiko is still a department store brand that makes dependable, inexpensive, unpretentious, reliable quartz watches -- but there's a whole other side to the company. |
Inc. May 2007 Josh Dean |
Very Tightly Wound How the watch business works. |
AskMen.com February 28, 2003 James Fiori |
8 Things You Need To Know About Watches Here are eight questions you need answered when it comes to watches. This crash course won't necessarily make you an expert on the subject, but it will help you become a very well informed consumer. |
BusinessWeek April 28, 2011 Thomas Mulier |
Clash of the Angry Swiss Watchmakers The Swiss watchmaking industry could be dramatically restructured if a proposed law tightens requirements for domestic content. |
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Martin Braun Watches A Martin Braun watch, whether in its eponymous guise or its current one, is far from a subpar timepiece. Herr Braun is a master watchmaker, choosing to focus his efforts on sunrise and sunset times. |
AskMen.com October 27, 2013 Jack Forster |
Does It Matter If Your Watch Is Losing Time? Mechanical watch owners may be the obsessive-compulsives, who darken watch service center managers' days by showing up complaining bitterly that their (insert brand name) "fine timepiece" is, quelle horreur, gaining a second a week. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 16, 2014 Christian Camerota |
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch? Ryan Raffaelli has one big question about the Apple Watch: Will anyone other than existing Apple users buy it? Why Apple's new wearable falls short of radical innovation. |
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Swatch Automatic Chronograph As part of the Irony collection, these men's watches feature new movements, the brand's typical lightweight and airy style, and the standard plastic and metal construction that the famed Swiss brand is known for. |
AskMen.com July 20, 2014 Jack Forster |
Why Smart Watches Pose Zero Threat To Real, Mechanical Wristwatches The real question shouldn't be "will smart watches bury wristwatches" but rather, "will smart watches have any chance of succeeding at all?" |
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Watch Precision How Much More Precise Are High Frequency Watches?... Rationale for Valuing Certain Watchmakers... etc. |
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Watch Advice What is more important to you: the watch or which flavor-of-the-month actor is wearing it? When the marketers elbow out the watchmakers, it's time to look elsewhere. |
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Francois-Paul Journe Interview Last week, French watchmaker Francois-Paul Journe was in NYC to celebrate 30 years in his profession. |
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Keep Up In A Luxury Watches Conversation A solid background in watches is a necessity for any chap looking to elevate his profile. |
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The Modern Haute Horlogerie Watch: Build The Ultimate Watch Collection The centuries-old art of horology continues to capture the imagination, fascination and, yes, the money of men around the world. |
AskMen.com Benjamin Clymer |
Watch Q&A Are automatic watches really better than quartz watches? |
AskMen.com January 21, 2014 Watch Snob |
Does It Matter Where Your Watch Was Made? The biz rags and watch press ran stories on the whole issue last summer when the regulations were tightened to require that at least 60% of the manufacturing costs had to be Swiss for the label to apply. |
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Watch Dials Is it just too flashy to wear a vivid cloisonne dial with a rose or yellow-gold case with my very conservative work wardrobe? |
AskMen.com November 30, 2012 Jason Heaton |
Watch Movements: Watch Fundamentals What is a movement? It is the engine inside the watch that drives the hands around and powers any additional complications, such as a stopwatch, date or moonphase display. |
AskMen.com November 12, 2012 Robert-Jan Broer |
Watches Under $1,000 There are a lot of interesting watch manufacturers that are fairly unknown but deliver a very interesting timepiece for the cost. |
AskMen.com October 22, 2013 |
Watch Snob: Is The Breguet Classique Truly Legitimate? It's certainly one of the most intellectually interesting watches in the last ten years. |
AskMen.com James Bassil |
Breitling Watches Interview Breitling's marketing director, Ben Balmer, discusses the ETA's movement moratorium, the difference between Swiss and Japanese watches and why men love timepieces. |
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ETA Movements I'm looking for a watch for my girlfriend, as it appears that expensive taste in watches is very infectious. I've caught her more than once with my watches on her wrist, which has led to some heated arguments. |
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Watch Inscriptions: Watch Snob If there is a story to tell, a watch inscription is a good way to do it. |
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Kobold Watch Challenge It has come to my attention that some of my earlier published judgments of Kobold watches have raised the ire of the brand's owner. |
AskMen.com June 18, 2014 Jack Forster |
Here's Why Your Next Watch Purchase Should Be German, Not Swiss Swiss watchmaking is famous for a reason, but the Germans do things a little differently. |
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Victorinox Swiss Army Infantry Vintage Day/Date Victorinox is one of the companies that can claim a true Swiss Army pedigree, dating back to its days as a pocketknife supplier to the Alpine nation's armed forces. |
Entrepreneur October 2003 Juanita Weaver |
Asking Too Much? Not a chance. Questions are one of the best tools for unlocking creativity. |
CRM January 2010 Jessica Tsai |
Required Reading: Innovation by Design Roberto Verganti, author of Design-Driven Innovation, believes that leading the market requires you to find meaning outside the market. |
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Watch Conglomerates The downside is a slight loss of character from buying a watch from a conglomerate brand. However, at least you know the brand will be around in 20 years |
AskMen.com Alex Muniz |
What You Should Know Before Buying A Watch Watches are complex and can be expensive, and there are a lot of them out there. So just what should you know when shopping for one? |
AskMen.com Ariel Adams |
Louis Vuitton Tambour Two-Tone The already popular Tambour line and adds a new line of two-tone steel and gold watches to the line for 2009, with pieces for both men and women. |
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Gronefeld Watches Gronefeld Exclusive Timepieces is a relatively new independent watchmaker's brand from the Netherlands. |
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Watch Snob: Are Watches Just Status Symbols? You may think you know watches, but let's be real -- you just don't. |
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Best Independent Watchmakers The watch company I recommend is Habring2, which is less a brand and more of a man, Richard Habring. |
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Braun Watches I have always been interested in vintage Braun watches, and I recently noticed that it has recently reintroduced its line of Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs designed watches. |
AskMen.com June 24, 2014 |
In Which The Watch Snob Very, Very (Very) Patiently Answers Questions That Should Maybe Not Have Been Asked Recommending watches is an awfully dicey proposition, unless you are quite sure you are as well-grounded in history and in possession of such faultless discrimination as, say, me. |
AskMen.com Ariel Adams |
Modern Design Classic Watches The Pioneers, Mass Production and New Technologies line of three books by Phaidon Press surveys the best looking products in a number of categories to identify true modern design classic watches. |
AskMen.com March 18, 2013 Ed Estlow |
$1,000 Watches For a grand, there's no sense in settling for anything besides a Swiss or Japanese quartz movement or a Swiss mechanical one. |
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RGM Watches I want to know: Is now a time that a great American luxury watch company could come into existence? |
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Seiko Watches: Watch Snob I am considering a watch from the Seiko Premier series, the Kinetic Direct Drive in particular. What do you think? And if my selection is horribly misguided, please, point me in a better direction. |
AskMen.com October 1, 2013 |
How To Take Your Watch Expertise To The Next Level The Nicolas Rieussec watches were based on a very risky idea, which is the identification of Rieussec as the maker of the world's first chronograph. |
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Seiko Watches The only Seiko I might one day consider owning would be from the brand's Grand Seiko haute horlogerie line, but only if the designs ever improve beyond their bland current state. |
AskMen.com August 22, 2013 Daniel Scheffler |
Locavore Watches The watch industry's version of locavore means a revival of non-Swiss (mostly locally made) watches from Germany, Italy, the UK and, naturally, the U.S. |
AskMen.com Ariel Adams |
The Argument For Rolex Watches Rolex has benefited from keeping its product line simple and consistent -- instead of releasing brand new models, it keeps refining existing designs. |
AskMen.com Robert-Jan Broer |
Gronefeld Exclusive Timepieces: One Hertz Gronefeld Exclusive Timepieces is led by brothers Bart and Tim Gronefeld, who were raised in a Dutch watchmaking family and educated at some of the best facilities in Switzerland. |
AskMen.com Jason Heaton |
Seiko SKX007 Dive Watch What sets the SKX apart from so many other cheap dive watches are its pedigree, quality build and true in-house movement. |
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Chronometer Watches Unless you're planning a solo circumnavigation of the globe without the use of GPS, chronometer certification shouldn't be reason to part with more money. And even if you are, you'll probably still be OK without it, give or take a few hundred nautical miles. |
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Designer Watches: Watch Snob The Watch Snob's take on collaborations between watchmakers and fashion labels. |
AskMen.com September 29, 2013 Jack Forster |
What Does A Watch Need To Have In Order To Be Great? The notion that an in-house movement is in some way inherently better is an illusion born of many factors. |