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Why Are In-House Made Movements Often Ironically More Expensive Than Sourced Watch Movements? - Ask Watch Experts Questions About Watches

Jason L. from New York City asks: In the recent years it seems watch brands have been milking the “in-house movement” movement, but how much does it actually cost to develop an in-house movement? How much more does it cost to manufacture that in-house-developed movement in-house?Since the day of CAD tools and simulations developing a watch movement can be 99% digital with a handful of prototypes (at the final stages of development). It is not like the old days where you needed to have a master watch maker with 50 years of experience to hand draw and fabricate parts for a movemen

Watch Wearing And Buying Tips For Every Man - Ask Watch Experts Questions About Watches

The democratization of watch enthusiasm is something we are keen to promote on a regular basis. As you can imagine aBlogtoWatch receives a lot of questions each week and we do our best to answer the salient ones in our Ask Us Anything section. Recently, the magazine, Men's Health, asked us for help with a section they were producing on style tips and hacks in regard to a range of things related to guys. Watches were among those things, so we were asked to make a simple list of tips for more novice watch lovers that should be of interest to enough aBlogtoWatch readers. So...Men's Health asks:

MB&F HM5 RT Watch Is The Horological Driving Machine In Gold

For 2013,?MB&F announces this new limited edition version of the Horological Machine No 5 (HM5) watch in 18k red gold. aBlogtoWatch reviewed the MB&F HM5 watch here when it first became available in 2012. This fifth edition of the Horological Machine legacy is inspired by driving watches (and cars) from mostly the 1970s. The wedge-shaped case displays the time on the side, visible through a sapphire crystal prism that magnifies the hour and minute indicator discs for increased legibility. Originally in all zirconium (similar to titanium) this new HM5 RT version comes in a case

IWC The Plastiki And A Limited Edition Adventure Ecology Ingenieur Watch

The wind speed was brutal. It was almost unfair. I was out in what felt like a gale for literally seconds before my expensive European umbrella was trashed and I was soaked. The wind warped it like aluminum foil in front of my eyes like it was a sick marionette puppet performance. In the past I had trusted its apparent durability to the elements with much confidence. In one fell swoop the elements decided to test its limits with a result that would satisfy a giggling teenager.The pathetic thing was that I wasn t doing anything exotic. I merely exited my car in Sausalito near a marina