Watch News, Reviews & Features With A Flavour of Scotland
These unorthodox collaborative pieces reveal their many delights slowly and subtly, evolving from ornate oddities to surprisingly versatile daily wearers with each passing day. Early in 2020, hip hop’s adulte terrible and would-be US president Kanye West showed Architectural Digest around his new LA home. With interiors conceived in collaboration with the legendary Axel Vervoordt, the…
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A review of one of the most sought after watches of the last few years and how one joined my collection. I started seriously taking an interest in watches in the summer of 2018. Since my teenage years I had always wore a wristwatch of some form, mostly quartz or…
Articles
Hello! Welcome to the Getting into Watches Guide. This guide contains 5 main points that will assist you in efficiently building your watch collection as a beginner. Context I like most watch enthusiasts- am not rolling in oodles of money. Like many of my peers, I have taken to robbing…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Scottish Watches podcast, episode 221. We got Rick back and he pronounced the name of our guest correctly. Today for his first interview with us we have Kyle Schut of Straton of Signum Watches (@stratonwatchcompany). A former Scottish resident and worker at British Gas as…
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Let us simply cut to the chase of this latest release from the house of H.Moser & Cie, this is cool very cool, by far the coolest release of 2021, and likely to stay there until, probably the next Moser release. So what can you tell us about the watch…
Reviews
Today we will discuss the Brew Retrograph. A quartz chronograph released by the micro brand watch company Brew Watch Co. The watch comes with a Beads of Rice (BOR) bracelet and grey leather band with quick release pins. Retail is $395 and there is an option without the BOR for $350. Let’s…
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to our very special 220th episode of the Scottish watches podcast. A long time ago, 2 years, in a cold and stormy day, two Richards decided to do a thing, and that thing has developed into a long-lasting podcast reaching podcast, and a great community on Instagram,…
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When Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species” in 1859 I doubt he had the Omega Seamaster in mind. The Seamaster has been evolving rapidly since it was first introduced in 1948. It found a fertile niche to evolve in from 1993 and, with a little help from the…
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Part 1: Origins & Basics Quartz Crystal (source: Wikipedia) In this trilogy in 5 parts (Douglas Adams 😊) we shall dive into what makes Quartz watches so amazing and why they deserve more attention form the watch fam. Intrinsic accuracy is what drives us. We want to create or admire…
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The 1980’s have enjoyed a resurgence in cultural relevance in the last few years probably due to the fact that 80’s kids are now at an age of having plenty of disposable income and are now jaded, a feeling that only nostalgia can cure, I think, I am not a…
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