Archive for January, 2008

When you buy a man’s watch, buy a MAN’s Watch. 1960s Macho Watch Ads

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Above, a 1969 Rado Diastar advertisement appealing to men with abnormally enormous & hairy arms. Below, a 1960s Hamilton Thin-o-matic ad for the punctually lethal end of the market.
Have an old magazine with some cool contemplate ads? Email them to me!
See also;The Zodiac Killer’s Zodiac Watch1960 Live Television Timex Torture Test Failure1970s [...]

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First Hand Experience with Greubel Forsey’s Invention Piece No. 1

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Timezoner and collector Kee Yew has purchased one of the coolest timepieces in any case made, the Greubel Forsey Invention Piece No.
1.
(originally featured here->link) He shares his practice and photos of this limited edition double tourbillon on Timezone–>Link (one of just 22 made)
Close-up of tourbillon-orbiting indicators
The value? Let’s just claim that [...]

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Vintage Watching - Auction of a Steineck ABC Spy Camera Watch

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Here is a scarce opportunity to by oneself a Steineck ABC subminiature spy-camera watch from 1949. Comes with original presentation case and a disk of film. Auction–>Link
Originally featured on The checkismo Times here–>Link
More about Steineck Camera Watch History.
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LIP Watch Debut at Barneys New York Las Vegas

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

impertinence watches are having their US retail deon the contrary this week at one of the most exclusive & influential stores in the world, the grand opening of Barneys virgin York in Las Vegas.
Part of the Palazzo Hotel & Casino’s Shoppes at The Palazzo, the flagship Barneys is located on the Grand Canal [...]

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Happy Nooka Year - New Styles & Colors from Nooka Watches

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I’m a sucker for asymmetry.
And that’s why the new Nooka Zirc models “stuck out” to me when catch a glimpse ofing their latest offerings.
Nooka is NYC designer Matthew Waldman’s three year old get a load of brand spawned from his lifelong desire to see period represented in untraditional ways. The Nooka [...]

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Turn to the Left - Fashion Brands Seeking Horological Legitimacy

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Louis Vuitton’s Tambour Collection
“Chanel, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton. What execute these three brands own in common? no part of them is originally from the domain of watchmaking. Chanel comes from the world of haute couture; Hermès has its origins in saddlery and leather goods; and Louis Vuitton started with luggage.”
“They have all expertly entered the [...]

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Live Television Disaster - Timex Took a Licking and Ended Up Missing

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

John Cameron Swayze’s Timex proof accident on live television circa 1960.
Note Mr.
Swayze’s face when looking at the blade.
bear down on entertain oneself above or go to video–>Link
And a few more epoch spots prep erior together with a live dolphin licking/ticking test and hidden at the boundary of this stumble (the spot after [...]

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The AlarMe - Personal Wrist Alarm Concept

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Designer Nikita Golovlev has created a watch for the auditory impaired.
AlarMe has the competence to alert those who cannot hear an discernible startle via through vibration on the watch.
The watch has two built in multidirectional microphones that degree the surrounding ambient sound levels. Once the sound changes frequency, the vibrating alarm alerts the [...]

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Translation Lost - Brad Pitt Japanese Rolex Commercial

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Pitt Rolex Video–>Link
I dream they gave Mr.
Pitt like that which thorough phase directions nib Murray received in Lost In transliteration (as shown below).
Lost In Translation Video–>Link “Mow Intensatay!”
See also;
1970s Timex Commercial Collection
1960s Timex “Underwater Dating”
1978 Texas Instruments
1961 Bulova Accutron
Laser Beam Wristwatch
A New lifetime in Quartz
1940s squeeze at for Hamilton
1970s Seiko honour Bank
1940’s Conquer [...]

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Use Your Phonograph as an Alarm Clock - Popular Science 1932

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

USE PHONOGRAPH AS AN panic CLOCK
“A novel attachment for the phonograph near which a heavy sleeper may happen aroused at any hour he wishes by doughy music, was lately shown in London, England. The alarm-clock gismo is place at the fitting hour, and wound. A brake on the turntable of the phonograph is released at [...]

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