Showing posts with label watches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watches. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Haurex homage of Seiko Spacewalk
via jomadeals.com
Or maybe not really, but for the price of $189.99, it's a nice toy.
Especially when you consider the price of the real ones...
However, nothing can buy you a dream, but a dream. :)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
My watches crowns post
By the way, for those who had bookmarked the link to my watches crowns post, the address has changed. Instead of: http://live.prokhorenko.us/2009/08/watches-are-all-about-crowns.html it's now: http://live.prokhorenko.us/watches-are-all-about-crowns Unfortuntely, I don't know how to make this post "sticky", like people do with future-marking the posts on LiveJournal, to make them always visible on the top. Hopefully Posterous guys will tell us what's the best way to do this here. P.S. And you can also find it on my Blogger at http://prokhorenko.blogspot.com/2009/08/watches-are-all-about-crowns.html
Sunday, February 21, 2010
ONE MILLION $
via youtube.com
THAT'S WHAT I CALL EXPENSIVE, BUT WORTH THE MONEY.
P.S. Yes, I'm over excited about them. :)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Русский часовщик проектирует часы
Несмотря что по дизайну часы очень на любителя (по-крайней мере, пока что), идея просто замечательная и я постараюсь проследить за судьбой. Интересно, найдет ли применение мой обзор "заводных головок" в данном проекте (http://live.prokhorenko.us/2009/08/watches-are-all-about-crowns.html) :)
Monday, November 9, 2009
Invicta's Russian Diver for $99
You've got less then 24 hours to purchase this Russian Diver's inspired watch by Invicta for just $99. That's is a pretty nice deal.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000R7K3MQ/iwhite-20
They put Swiss quartz movement in, screw-down crown with a cap, very attractive rubber bracelet with buckle, decent lume and 53 mm in diameter (not including crown).
With MSRP of $575 (ridiculous, like there is anybody who pays MSRP for Invicta), however the regular price rarely goes down the $200 bucks and typically is around $249 for a piece.
Give it a shot. Pretty decent watch for those who like the Russian Diver's style but doesn't want to break a bank for it.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Russian officials know watches
Yeah, Russians know watches. :) Photos of Russian officials and their watches, starts from a little bit more $1K for a piece topping with $1M for a piece. Nice.
P.S. Don't ask why economy sucks.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Seiko Izul
via ablogtoread.com
One of the greatest watches you can see. Very rare, I should say. Rather big, I think something around 50 mm. The bad thing is that they are probably Japanese only versions and if found, will retail for not less then $8,000. But definitely an eye-stopper.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Shopping for watches movements
So I have entered into an alliance with Sea-Gull of China and Soprod of Switzerland, and will be offering their movements. Unless we offer a special Vintage piece, we will NOT be offering ANY ETA based watches. This is not saying I am limiting the range to these companies; other options are still being investigated. While movement choice, as both technically and price driven, it is more, an ethical choice.
Great post about making a movements choice by Orange Watch Company (ORANGE). What problems do small watches manufacturers face from the very first steps of watchmaking.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Eau de OMEGA
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Crownless watches
Oops, every time when I'm thinking that I've found the most rare crown position, I'm about to discover one more pearl in the sand.
And today I'd like to tell you about crown-less watches. No, not like quartz ones without crown, but mechanical ones without crown. At all.
No crown. While it might be not so rare design approach nowadays -- frankly speaking I never looked into it -- it probably still pretty hard to spot around. A good and descriptive representative in this group would be a Hardwood watches, that started in early 1920's. They got rid of crown at all, using the kinetic energy of the wrist for winding and using a rotating bezel as a setting mechanism. I believe all of the Hardwood watches are using the same design principle, but I'd like mention the Hardwood Steel 516.10.11 here.
- Hardwood Steel
Hopefully, this one is not the end of my challenge, but just a start of hunting down the rare and unusual crown positions. :)
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
And today I'd like to tell you about crown-less watches. No, not like quartz ones without crown, but mechanical ones without crown. At all.
No crown. While it might be not so rare design approach nowadays -- frankly speaking I never looked into it -- it probably still pretty hard to spot around. A good and descriptive representative in this group would be a Hardwood watches, that started in early 1920's. They got rid of crown at all, using the kinetic energy of the wrist for winding and using a rotating bezel as a setting mechanism. I believe all of the Hardwood watches are using the same design principle, but I'd like mention the Hardwood Steel 516.10.11 here.
- Hardwood Steel
Hopefully, this one is not the end of my challenge, but just a start of hunting down the rare and unusual crown positions. :)
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
Crowns and the power of community
Since I wrote the first blog post about crowns on watches, even despite on a very short period passed, I discovered many more different models of watches, that utilize the unusual position of a crown.
Community rocks.
Even my recent blog post about 8 o'clock watches, which I thought to be a "steal", can be appended today by one more sample.
8 o'clock. One of the pretty mature examples is Citizen Promaster. I think there are several models featuring the 8 o'clock crown, but this particular one is NY0054-04EB and it's pretty inexpensive.
- Citizen Promaster
So as for now I pretty much nailed down my list to all positions, but 5 & 7 and 1 & 11. While I'm starting to think that there is a reason for that -- placing a crown there will disturb either side of the lug, so why bother? -- it makes my challenge even more exciting to hunt them down.
Stay with me. ;)
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
Community rocks.
Even my recent blog post about 8 o'clock watches, which I thought to be a "steal", can be appended today by one more sample.
8 o'clock. One of the pretty mature examples is Citizen Promaster. I think there are several models featuring the 8 o'clock crown, but this particular one is NY0054-04EB and it's pretty inexpensive.
- Citizen Promaster
So as for now I pretty much nailed down my list to all positions, but 5 & 7 and 1 & 11. While I'm starting to think that there is a reason for that -- placing a crown there will disturb either side of the lug, so why bother? -- it makes my challenge even more exciting to hunt them down.
Stay with me. ;)
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Crown on 8 o'clock
I've got one more addition to my collection of crowns.
8 o'clock. The only one watch (I am aware about) that has a crown on 8 o'clock is Dievas Vortex and at the moment of writing this post it's only available for pre-orders. Looks like extremely rare position (I really never came around it until today), but is very cool.
- Dievas Vortex
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
8 o'clock. The only one watch (I am aware about) that has a crown on 8 o'clock is Dievas Vortex and at the moment of writing this post it's only available for pre-orders. Looks like extremely rare position (I really never came around it until today), but is very cool.
- Dievas Vortex
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Crown on the back
Few more things to be added to my collection of crowns.
The crown on the back side of the watches. There are many samples in this category, however, the most of them, that I found, were vintage ones. Good examples are Jaeger LeCoultre (JLC) Futurematic and Bulova Accutron 214, both submitted to be by fellow WUS member SkooterNB. (Thanks!)
- JLC Futurematic
- Bulova Accutron 214
I remember seeing a great post or article about how these crowns are supposed to work, but I have problems finding it again. I'm going to look through my bookmarks and browsing history and put a link to it.
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
The crown on the back side of the watches. There are many samples in this category, however, the most of them, that I found, were vintage ones. Good examples are Jaeger LeCoultre (JLC) Futurematic and Bulova Accutron 214, both submitted to be by fellow WUS member SkooterNB. (Thanks!)
- JLC Futurematic
- Bulova Accutron 214
I remember seeing a great post or article about how these crowns are supposed to work, but I have problems finding it again. I'm going to look through my bookmarks and browsing history and put a link to it.
See the complete list of crowns on watches here in my blog.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Crowns (cont'd)
It looks like my last post about watches and crowns created some resonance around.
I've started a similar topic on WUS and run a poll on it. By the way -- I love polls. That's a great tool to learn what people think even if they hate to comment.
Many good results came so far. First of all, the watches with crown on the back. These ones are going to be added shortly, as soon as I'll sort out my bookmarks or get some insights into such watches. From what I know, the back-crowned watches are mostly vintage ones.
The other thing. It looks like the most of people who commented the post do like 3 o'clock crowns. However, according to the poll, almost 50% of the people who answered, like the unusual positions of the crown. That's all an interesting stats that I think some watchmakers should take into consideration.
It'd be interesting how the poll develops. I try to keep an eye on it and crosspost the changes here.
I've started a similar topic on WUS and run a poll on it. By the way -- I love polls. That's a great tool to learn what people think even if they hate to comment.
Many good results came so far. First of all, the watches with crown on the back. These ones are going to be added shortly, as soon as I'll sort out my bookmarks or get some insights into such watches. From what I know, the back-crowned watches are mostly vintage ones.
The other thing. It looks like the most of people who commented the post do like 3 o'clock crowns. However, according to the poll, almost 50% of the people who answered, like the unusual positions of the crown. That's all an interesting stats that I think some watchmakers should take into consideration.
It'd be interesting how the poll develops. I try to keep an eye on it and crosspost the changes here.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Watches are all about crowns
This is going to be a long post. Be prepared...
As you probably already know, I have passion in watches. I like to wear them, collect them, read and talk about the them.
However, what you probably never knew, is that I'm finding a special beauty in the crown position on the watches.
Nowadays you can find watches with as much crowns as you wish. However, I'm more conservative on this matter. I prefer just one (and an extra rare case -- two crowns on Anonimo's Firenze Dual Time, but that's for reason), with maybe a few accompanying buttons. But it should be only one crown, and I prefer it to take the major positioning on watches.
So here comes my list of crown positions on watches. Ideally, it would be great if I can make this list the most complete one, so I'd keep this blog post updated whenever I'll get any more additions to it (also posted separately, so you don't have to look back all the time).
So here we go:
1 o'clock. While it's a little cheat, the limited edition from Vacheron Constantin Les Historiques line, the Historiques American 1921 has a cushion-shaped case with a crown positioned at 1 o'clock. However, if you'll read the dial, it's on 12 o'clock. Either way, it doesn't make it less interesting for me.
- Historiques American 1921
2 o'clock. Pretty unusual position. Several watches in this category, Vostok Kommandirskie (with several version like Paratrooper, Tank, etc), Guiliano Mazzuoli Manometro S, and of course I can't forget about Dino Zei San Marco one.
- Vostok Kommandirskie
- Guiliano Mazzuoli Manometro S
- Dino Zei San Marco
Of course, there are might be more watches in this group, however, I feel that they are pretty well represented here.
3 o'clock. Well, the crown on 3 o'clock is no doubts the most popular position. The majority of watches have crown on the right side, right on the 3 o'clock. My collection of 6 watches has 5 watches with crown on 3 (at the moment of writing this).
The image is clickable in case you want to see more details.
4 o'clock. Anonimo is very rich on watches with crown on 4 o'clock. But the most I like Anonimo Professionale GMT. Other then that, there also plenty of other brands are putting crown on 4 o'clock, mostly for diving watches. To name a few Doxa Sub 250, Sinn 1U and many others.
- Anonimo Professionale GMT
- Doxa Sub 250
- Sinn U1
5 o'clock. I don't know any. Send it to me!
6 o'clock. Very rare position, Anonimo Militare and Firenze Dual Time (a little bit cheatish, as they have two crowns actually). Also, there is vintage Breitling Pult Bullhead dated 1970's that is a good sample.
- Anonimo Militare
- Anonimo Firenze Dual Time
- Breitling Pult Bullhead
7 o'clock. I don't know any. Send it to me!
8 o'clock. Originally, I though this position to be almost impossible to find, however I was wrong. So far I discovered at least two different watches featuring crown on 8 o'clock. That first one that has a crown on 8 o'clock is Dievas Vortex and as of end of August 2009 it's only available for pre-orders. The other one is pretty mature Citizen Promaster. I think there are several models featuring the 8 o'clock crown, but this particular one is NY0054-04EB and it's pretty inexpensive. 8 o'clock still looks like extremely rare position, but is very cool.
- Dievas Vortex
- Citizen Promaster
9 o'clock. Pretty popular crown position for watches. Sometimes it's called left side crown.
I find it typically on watches to be worn on right hand or with a huge crowns. I've got one watch, Moscow Classic "Vodolaz" 3133/01461051, with crown on 9 o'clock.
- Moscow Classic "Vodolaz"
The image is clickable or you can see more photos of my Moscow Classic watches at my Flickr page.
You can easily found more cases of putting crown on the left side just by googling this.
10 o'clock. The few ones that I know so far is Giuliano Mazzuoli Manometro designed for left handed users, and Haffstreuner Blockade or very similar Rebosus RS002.
- Giuliano Mazzuoli Manometro
- Haffstreuner Blockade
- Rebosus RS002
11 o'clock. I don't know any. Send it to me!
12 o'clock. That's a pretty rare position, and I believe it to be one of the most beautiful. Well, the 6 o'clock one is also great though. I didn't see a lot of watches with 0 or 12 o'clock crown. Sometimes, people refer to them like crown on top or lugs-placed crowns. They are Anonimo Firenze Dual Time (not really, as they have two movements), one of the rarest Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk, Bovet Sportster Saguaro (and many more Bovet models) and few fashion watches like Quicksilver ones.
- Anonimo Firenze Dual Time
- Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk
- Quicksilver HEDI
- Bovet Sportster Saguaro
There is one more type of unusual crown positions here. While it doesn't fit the other positions well, it's still a great design approach worth mentioning.
The crown on the back side of the watches. There are many samples in this category, however, the most of them, that I found, were vintage ones. Good examples are Jaeger LeCoultre (JLC) Futurematic and Bulova Accutron 214, both submitted to be by fellow WUS member SkooterNB. (Thanks!)
- JLC Futurematic
- Bulova Accutron 214
I remember seeing a great post or article about how these crowns are supposed to work, but I have problems finding it again. I'm going to look through my bookmarks and browsing history and put a link to it.
One more rare design to mention is crown-less watches. No, not like quartz ones without crown, but mechanical ones without crown. At all.
No crown. While it might be not so rare design approach nowadays -- frankly speaking I never looked into it -- it probably still pretty hard to spot around. A good and descriptive representative in this group would be a Hardwood watches, that started in early 1920's. They got rid of crown at all, using the kinetic energy of the wrist for winding and using a rotating bezel as a setting mechanism. I believe all of the Hardwood watches are using the same design principle, but I'd like mention the Hardwood Steel 516.10.11 here.
- Hardwood Steel
Well, that's it. I'll do my best to keep this list up to date and once again, I'd greatly appreciate your help with nailing down rare crown positions. Or if you just know any gorgeous watches that you want me to mention, please also send it to me.
(I still don't know anything about watches with crown positions on 5, 7 and 11 o'clock.)
Thanks!
As you probably already know, I have passion in watches. I like to wear them, collect them, read and talk about the them.
However, what you probably never knew, is that I'm finding a special beauty in the crown position on the watches.
Nowadays you can find watches with as much crowns as you wish. However, I'm more conservative on this matter. I prefer just one (and an extra rare case -- two crowns on Anonimo's Firenze Dual Time, but that's for reason), with maybe a few accompanying buttons. But it should be only one crown, and I prefer it to take the major positioning on watches.
So here comes my list of crown positions on watches. Ideally, it would be great if I can make this list the most complete one, so I'd keep this blog post updated whenever I'll get any more additions to it (also posted separately, so you don't have to look back all the time).
So here we go:
1 o'clock. While it's a little cheat, the limited edition from Vacheron Constantin Les Historiques line, the Historiques American 1921 has a cushion-shaped case with a crown positioned at 1 o'clock. However, if you'll read the dial, it's on 12 o'clock. Either way, it doesn't make it less interesting for me.
- Historiques American 1921
2 o'clock. Pretty unusual position. Several watches in this category, Vostok Kommandirskie (with several version like Paratrooper, Tank, etc), Guiliano Mazzuoli Manometro S, and of course I can't forget about Dino Zei San Marco one.
- Vostok Kommandirskie
- Guiliano Mazzuoli Manometro S
- Dino Zei San Marco
Of course, there are might be more watches in this group, however, I feel that they are pretty well represented here.3 o'clock. Well, the crown on 3 o'clock is no doubts the most popular position. The majority of watches have crown on the right side, right on the 3 o'clock. My collection of 6 watches has 5 watches with crown on 3 (at the moment of writing this).
The image is clickable in case you want to see more details.
4 o'clock. Anonimo is very rich on watches with crown on 4 o'clock. But the most I like Anonimo Professionale GMT. Other then that, there also plenty of other brands are putting crown on 4 o'clock, mostly for diving watches. To name a few Doxa Sub 250, Sinn 1U and many others.
- Anonimo Professionale GMT
- Doxa Sub 250
- Sinn U1
5 o'clock. I don't know any. Send it to me!6 o'clock. Very rare position, Anonimo Militare and Firenze Dual Time (a little bit cheatish, as they have two crowns actually). Also, there is vintage Breitling Pult Bullhead dated 1970's that is a good sample.
- Anonimo Militare
- Anonimo Firenze Dual Time
- Breitling Pult Bullhead
7 o'clock. I don't know any. Send it to me!
8 o'clock. Originally, I though this position to be almost impossible to find, however I was wrong. So far I discovered at least two different watches featuring crown on 8 o'clock. That first one that has a crown on 8 o'clock is Dievas Vortex and as of end of August 2009 it's only available for pre-orders. The other one is pretty mature Citizen Promaster. I think there are several models featuring the 8 o'clock crown, but this particular one is NY0054-04EB and it's pretty inexpensive. 8 o'clock still looks like extremely rare position, but is very cool.
- Dievas Vortex
- Citizen Promaster9 o'clock. Pretty popular crown position for watches. Sometimes it's called left side crown.I find it typically on watches to be worn on right hand or with a huge crowns. I've got one watch, Moscow Classic "Vodolaz" 3133/01461051, with crown on 9 o'clock.
- Moscow Classic "Vodolaz"
The image is clickable or you can see more photos of my Moscow Classic watches at my Flickr page.You can easily found more cases of putting crown on the left side just by googling this.
10 o'clock. The few ones that I know so far is Giuliano Mazzuoli Manometro designed for left handed users, and Haffstreuner Blockade or very similar Rebosus RS002.
- Giuliano Mazzuoli Manometro
- Haffstreuner Blockade
- Rebosus RS002
11 o'clock. I don't know any. Send it to me!12 o'clock. That's a pretty rare position, and I believe it to be one of the most beautiful. Well, the 6 o'clock one is also great though. I didn't see a lot of watches with 0 or 12 o'clock crown. Sometimes, people refer to them like crown on top or lugs-placed crowns. They are Anonimo Firenze Dual Time (not really, as they have two movements), one of the rarest Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk, Bovet Sportster Saguaro (and many more Bovet models) and few fashion watches like Quicksilver ones.
- Anonimo Firenze Dual Time
- Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk
- Quicksilver HEDI
- Bovet Sportster Saguaro
There is one more type of unusual crown positions here. While it doesn't fit the other positions well, it's still a great design approach worth mentioning.
The crown on the back side of the watches. There are many samples in this category, however, the most of them, that I found, were vintage ones. Good examples are Jaeger LeCoultre (JLC) Futurematic and Bulova Accutron 214, both submitted to be by fellow WUS member SkooterNB. (Thanks!)
- JLC Futurematic
- Bulova Accutron 214I remember seeing a great post or article about how these crowns are supposed to work, but I have problems finding it again. I'm going to look through my bookmarks and browsing history and put a link to it.
One more rare design to mention is crown-less watches. No, not like quartz ones without crown, but mechanical ones without crown. At all.
No crown. While it might be not so rare design approach nowadays -- frankly speaking I never looked into it -- it probably still pretty hard to spot around. A good and descriptive representative in this group would be a Hardwood watches, that started in early 1920's. They got rid of crown at all, using the kinetic energy of the wrist for winding and using a rotating bezel as a setting mechanism. I believe all of the Hardwood watches are using the same design principle, but I'd like mention the Hardwood Steel 516.10.11 here.
- Hardwood Steel
Well, that's it. I'll do my best to keep this list up to date and once again, I'd greatly appreciate your help with nailing down rare crown positions. Or if you just know any gorgeous watches that you want me to mention, please also send it to me.(I still don't know anything about watches with crown positions on 5, 7 and 11 o'clock.)
Thanks!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Status update
Completed the Data Sufficiency section in the morning. Didn't actually do much. It looks like I lost some traction and need to get back on course.
Three days in gym so far. The only good thing is it's very close. I can put shorts and t-shirt, jump into the car or (better, but tougher) take a quick walk to it. Actually, 0.4 miles away and it's 8 minutes walk according to Google. Basically, that's the only good thing about it. ;)
Found a nice watches that I'm failing to identify. Here they are. Looks like german and a little bit steampunkish, but nice.
Today is a pretty warm day. It's about 85+ here in SF corridor to the Valley. I guess the temperature goes way up if you'll got south.
Three days in gym so far. The only good thing is it's very close. I can put shorts and t-shirt, jump into the car or (better, but tougher) take a quick walk to it. Actually, 0.4 miles away and it's 8 minutes walk according to Google. Basically, that's the only good thing about it. ;)
Found a nice watches that I'm failing to identify. Here they are. Looks like german and a little bit steampunkish, but nice.
Today is a pretty warm day. It's about 85+ here in SF corridor to the Valley. I guess the temperature goes way up if you'll got south.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Some watches photos...
I had no chance to blog for a while, my bad, sorry about that... The things are pretty hectic around, and whenever I'm finally have time for a short post, I have no inspiration for that. Blogging is still a little bit like a responsible thing, and I can't just blog about my life, not considering those people who will end up reading this.
Whatever, to feed up some interest in the blog, some more photos of my early Breitling Automatic Colt watches.
The first thing which is wrong about this watch is an impression of a size.
They are small. No matter what it seems to you.
Well, an actually everything else is good about them. They look terrific, keep a great time and just an excellent timepiece to own. They have a Breitling 17 movement, which is modified ETA 2824-2, as far as I remember.
More photos are available on my Flickr page.
A lot of people have a false impression that I do own a lot of watches. I wish to, but no. My collection is extremely modest and I have only 6 watches in it. All of them can fit into one trivial watch box and I will still need a new one to wear. ;)
So far, they are:
Whatever, to feed up some interest in the blog, some more photos of my early Breitling Automatic Colt watches.
The first thing which is wrong about this watch is an impression of a size.
They are small. No matter what it seems to you.
Well, an actually everything else is good about them. They look terrific, keep a great time and just an excellent timepiece to own. They have a Breitling 17 movement, which is modified ETA 2824-2, as far as I remember.
More photos are available on my Flickr page.
A lot of people have a false impression that I do own a lot of watches. I wish to, but no. My collection is extremely modest and I have only 6 watches in it. All of them can fit into one trivial watch box and I will still need a new one to wear. ;)
So far, they are:
- Breitling Aeromarine "Colt" Automatic A17035
- Chotovelli Torino TS7000-2
- Tissot T-Sport PRS-200 T17.1.486.44
- Moscow Classic "Vodolaz" 3133/01461051
- Hugo Boss Chronograph #HB.11201303.63510A
- Tissot 1853 Seastar
Friday, June 19, 2009
My watches fetish
Two more close-ups of my new Chotovelli timepiece.
They are really slick.
Full set is available at my Flickr page (just paid my account for two more years).
You can't feel the 52 mm size. They're big, no matter what, you have to love that, but they're beautifully big. :)
I didn't do any good wrist shots, the image is blurring. But I will do more, whenever I'll get some free time for that.
They are really slick.Full set is available at my Flickr page (just paid my account for two more years).You can't feel the 52 mm size. They're big, no matter what, you have to love that, but they're beautifully big. :)
I didn't do any good wrist shots, the image is blurring. But I will do more, whenever I'll get some free time for that.
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