IWC Schaffhausen Japanese Replica Watch in White Dial

New Website For 2014

Welcome to a new look and feel for the aBlogtoWatch watch blog website. We enter what is perhaps the fifth overall version of the site and the second major design to use the (versus older name). One of the notable small changes is that the new version of aBlogtoWatch removes the "formerly aBlogtoRead" label we once had in the header. Even though many industry people still like to call us "aBlogtoRead," the name is part of our history. With the new for 2014 aBlogtoWatch website we offer a lot of improvements both visually and behind the scenes.Before di

Carl F. Bucherer Patravi ScubaTec Dive Watch

High-end watch brand?Carl F. Bucherer is of course part of the larger Bucherer family that includes the major Swiss watch retailer. Like many modern brands trying to appeal to a diverse set of potential customers, they might come out with a new classic tourbillon and diver in the same year. In fact that is exactly what they have done. We recently reported on Carl F. Bucherer's first tourbillon with a hands-on look at the new Manero Tourbillon here. Now for a diver with the Patravi ScubaTec.The details of the Patravi ScubaTec will show you that it isn't trying to be the next best thing

Jaeger-LeCoultre: Making Timepieces In The Heart Of Watch Country

I am in Switzerland C in the Jura mountains to be exact C and it is snowing. As a California guy I don t see much snow. In fact, the only times I have really seen snow in my life has been in Europe. The place looks like something out of a Christmas card. There is white covering the ground and lining the trees while quaint little buildings spew puffs of smoke out of their chimneys. It is all very charming in a sort of storybook way. It is also the perfect setting for watch making, and the winter window views of the men and women who work at Jaeger-LeCoultre.I heard some interesting his

Urwerk UR-1001 Zeit Device Pocket Watch

Someone recently asked me whether they thought pocket watches might come back in fashion. John and I spent time discussing this during an episode of the HourTime Show watch podcast and after giving it much thought the answer was a resounding "not likely." So why am I mentioning this before I discuss what is arguably one of the coolest pocket watches around? Because this pocket watch you see before you won't find a place in jacket pockets and be used to tell the time on a regular basis. It will be stored sweetly and safely and played with from time to time. The privileged few owners of these