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Tiffany & Co. Watches Do Not Shine In 2010
For the most part I have great admiration for the watches that Tiffany & Co. has sold over the years. For a while, they combined their inventory with personally branded watches and ones from brands such as Rolex and Patek Philippe. Tiffany & Co. branded watches from the 1990's for example were very cool. I wrote a lot about the famous Streamerica watch designed by Jorg Hysek (you can search for it here on aBlogtoReadwatches-dealer to the right, as I have written about it several times), and I personally reviewed a Tiffany & Co. Mark T-57 Automatic watch here. Tiffany & Co. was very quiet about their watch operation. Little media, and more or less merely relied on in-store foot traffic to notice their watches. Watches were made and designed by outside partners, while in-house people at Tiffany curated the designs and styles.Then a few years ago the Swatch Group wiggled its way in deeper to Tiffany & Co.'s watch making arm. Swatch Group became a licensee of the Tiffan

saw mamma mia today and it made me think of idle swede...
hi gang,been a little busy the last couple of weeks.not only did mamma mia and all those 70's discos outfits make me think of idle swede but when i saw this lighter, while on vacation, i had to have one.now i can be as cool as idle swede...clcrab lighter...pic of my youngest son...

Vintage Seiko Diver-- modified and meshified!
This restored and modded 1984 Seiko 6309 diver that I've nicknamed "Red October" originally arrived with a standard Seiko Z22 dive strap:Blech! I hate these! I tried a number of alternatives Watchadoo lumpy, Zulu strap, etc.Nada! None looked or felt right. Until I tried a shark mesh Oh, yeah! Fits perfect! OK, so maybe mesh is more 70's than 80's but I don't care!

SOTC - first one!
I've been here for nearly a year, and in that time my collection has grown quite a bit! Since it will be a few months before my next addition I thought that now would be a good time to do a State Of The Collection (SOTC) post. I have never done one before, so I'll just feel out how best to do it as I go along.I guess I might as well start with what got me to this point before jumping in to the watches. I remember getting my first watch when I was 5 years old. We were living in England at the time and my parents promised that they would buy me a watch when I learned to tell the time properly. Well, I learned around the time we went on a campervan tour through Europe, so while we were in Switzerland they bought me my first watch! I still have it in a drawer, the crystal is a bit scratched and it no longer runs and it doesn't have a strap any more, but it is still there.Through the years I always loved watches and took every opportunity to stare in shop windows at the watches. I got a Sei

I bought this Chronomat Blackbird new 12 years ago.
Don't wear it often. Have never seen another in the wild although I know they are out there. I can't ever decide if I like it or not after all these years but I still have it.