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TimeFactors Speedbird III (PRS-22) Hands-On
Sit back, pour yourself a drop of your favourite and have a think…If someone told you that you could get a proper Flieger from a boutique maker, numbered case and dial, in-house design, screwed-in crown tube (none of this pressed-in stuff), 80,000 A/m soft-iron inner case and a top-grade ETA 2824-2 movement, what would you guess the price tag would read? ?¡ê3,000? ?Maybe a snip at ¡ê2,000?Now we've started, a couple more questions…Where would you expect this paragon of low-volume horology to come from? ?La Locle? ?Geneva? ?La Chaux-de-Fonds? Glash¨¹tte?And what would the logo on the dial read? ?Omega, possibly. ?IWC, perhaps. ?Breitling or Bremont, maybe?I'll bet you a pint in my village local (should you be lucky enough to find yourself in Bampton's splendid Morris Clown) that your answers are not, respectively, ¡ê470, Sheffield and Timefactors.From South Yorkshire, Eddie Platts, Timefactors' owner, has been shooting across the bows of the branded Swiss watch industry since 19

The Dollar Watches!
This was an important part of American horology that is often taken for granted by collectors.What is a "dollar watch"?A dollar watch was a pocket watch or later, a wristwatch, that sold for about one dollar.The sale of these watches began in 1892 by the watchmakers Ingersoll, Waterbury, and New Haven. Later, Western Clock (Westclox) in 1899 and the E. Ingraham Company also began manufacturing them. Dollar watches were practical, mass-produced timepieces intended to be as inexpensive as possible. Trademarks of dollar watches were their simple, rugged design, movement (usually with a pin-pallet escapement, although sometimes with duplex escapements) which has either no jewels or just one jewel, width of about eighteen size (two inches), and sale price of about a dollar from 1892 until the mid 1950s. Many other companies made them, with literally hundreds of names on the dials.To keep costs down, the watches were often sold in flimsy cardboard boxes, which are now highly collectible.What

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My New Omega Dress Watch
I have been wanting to get a leather strap dress watch instead of wearing my Yacht-Master all the time. After much thought and comparision here's what I got. I do like it! I think Omega makes a fine dress watch and it has a great movement in it. Do you like it?

Cellini Time
I've agonised for a while now between a two tone 36mm DJ or a Cellini Time for formal occasions. I'm pretty sure I will go for the latter but I would appreciate comments from you good folk and I'd particularly like to see any wrist shots you have. Thanks.