Two Broke Watch Snobs
Ep. #141 Hangin’ On The Scottish Watches Podcast
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Two Broke Watch Snobs
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The Netflix series is back – and with something special for watch lovers.
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Starting this weekend, the theatre inside Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands resort will become home to the epic, 16-day Patek Philippe Watch Art Grand Exhibition, the biggest and longest such event ever staged by the brand. Open from 28 September to 13 October, the enormous showcase of horological artefacts and prowess will take visitors through the company’s history while delving into its many innovations and milestones. Divided into 10 themed rooms, the exhibition will present a comprehensive array of timepieces spanning centuries, including the first ever perpetual calendar wristwatch, as well as legendary grand complications like the record-setting Calibre 89. Some 400 timepiece will be on display – all detailed in a hardbound catalogue that will be sold to benefit charity – and here are seven highlights of the show that are worth a second look. The first perpetual calendar wristwatch Although the distinction of inventing the first perpetual calendar watch goes to English watchmaker Thomas Mudge, who created it in 1762 – and the Patek Philippe Museum owns one such Mudge creation – it was Patek Philippe that built the first ever perpetual calendar in a wristwatch, back in 1925. It was a one-off creation powered by a movement dating to 1898. Initially developed for a women’s pendant watch, the compact calibre only found a home 27 years later inside the landmark wristwatch. Crucially, it was also an instantaneous perpetual calendar, with calendar i...
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No modern vehicles allowed.
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Not only did the Great War move timekeeping to the wrist – it also introduced a refined aesthetic built for battle.
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Summer's not over yet!
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A unique, complicated Rolex with a diamond dial and a strange history? Yes, please.
Quill & Pad
Even seasoned watch connoisseurs look twice when presented with a men's watch fitted with what’s known as a “salmon” dial. If it is a fairly common model, a salmon-colored dial usually elevates the watch to a higher plane. Martin Green explains why this is so.
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Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings were two of the best known and most respected broadcast journalists on American television. While Cronkite was known to wear a gold Rolex Datejust and Omega chronographs, resident watch spotter Nick Gould surprisingly found evidence of Jennings sporting a Heuer Monaco.
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It's not easy being beautiful.
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For under $10,000 you can look like a million bucks.
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We're covering a lot of ground this week.
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Point the camera anywhere, it's all gold.
Deployant
We did a travel watch recommendation piece way back in 2015. Here is an update with our latest recommendations for the jet setter.
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Seiko re-launches the Seiko 5 Sports Collection.
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Some of the very best budget-friendly finds for your wrist.
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Given an imaginary budget of S$12,000 retail, we go about to make six recommendations mostly off the beaten track. So you have options other than the usual.
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Two queens are better than one.
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Meet the Canadian astronaut who's traveled to the bottom of the ocean and spacewalked in low Earth orbit – and wore the same watch for both.
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Mankind have often been fascinated with aviation and the idea of flying. Since eons ago, Man have devised ways to keep themselves airborne. Of course, the idea had progressed even further with technological and engineering capabilities – notably with the space program that various countries and corporations have partaken, or are currently partaking. As theRead More
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Bracelets and NATOs galore.
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This is the stuff that watch collecting nightmares are made of.
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All of the German watchmaker's 2019 releases will be on display, and then some.
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