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We are back for the second installment of the occasional Escapement Room series “Ask a Watch Collector Anything”. We have collected a variety of questions and put them to Steven Kolchak, the marketing director for a plumbing supply company in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Steve is fifty-one and collects everything from luxury Swiss brands to… Continue reading Ask a Watch Collector Anything (Vol. Two)
Greg: I thought that we could talk about collecting goals for the next year. As collectors (not enthusiasts) where do we think that we are going? Do we have goals? Ambitions? What is on the horizon? I think that I am going to be less impulsive. There is still the joy of finding something undervalued… Continue reading Round Table No. 10: Boys Club
The first day of January is one where we frequently look back at the previous year and forward to the one to come. (The Roman god Janus had two faces for a reason, maybe.) Here I will discuss what I learned about myself this year (I am dictating this while staring at my visage in… Continue reading It was a year, the year that was
I know I have a type (30mm 1940s sub-second 15J mechanical Swiss jobber), but that wasn't always the case. For a long period of time around 10-12 years ago I was obsessed with vintage "divers and drivers" as I used to call them. I had a mad Orient phase, I bought a rare Scuba Amfibia… Continue reading Talismanic
Sounds like a Harry Potter book doesn’t it… Despite the recent Seiko acquisition, and whatever else I’ve been moaning about, I did also start re-wearing this lovely little Fluva. This is a little sweety, powered by a Felsa 690 Bidynator. Fluva is a brand trademarked in Geneva, 1949, by J. D. Klopmann. Klopmann also registered… Continue reading Fluva Genève, and the Felsa Bidynator
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