So a lot can change in a month. Only a month in the past, I used to be solely writing about occasions being canceled attributable to COVID-19. And now, it looks like greater than half the world is being requested to remain at dwelling. I hope all of you might be secure and wholesome. On this month’s roundup, we look at the affect the coronavirus pandemic can have on the Swiss watch trade. Subsequent, now we have a trio of Japanese watches from Seiko and Citizen, Japan’s two largest watchmakers.
From across the Net, we check out six girls watch collectors to see what sorts of watches they’re excited about proudly owning. We even have in-depth seems of Audemars Piguet’s latest [Re]grasp01 chronograph and a classic Panerai reference 3646 watch from the Second Struggle World. And to spherical issues up, now we have an interview with the creator of G-Shock, Kikuo Ibe.
1. HOW TO PROPERLY SANITIZE YOUR WRIST WATCH
With the pandemic looming over all of us, I assume it’s solely becoming that we start this round-up with a little bit of a public service announcement. Whereas it’s vital to clean our arms, we shouldn’t neglect our watches. In any case, we put on our watches for hours on finish, and edges of bezels, the house between lugs make excellent hiding spots for all kinds of nasty issues. To learn the way we are able to correctly sanitize our watches, we requested Stoll & Co., a family-run watchmaker who has been servicing and repairing watches since 1982, for recommendation and ideas.
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2. REVIEW Of CITIZEN CALIBER 0100, THE WORLD’S MOST ACCURATE WATCH
Watch snobs typically dismiss quartz watches as soulless. They are saying they lack character, as if a ticking seconds hand and the truth that they run on batteries instantly make a quartz much less of a watch? I’d argue that the quartz-powered Citizen Caliber 0100 is not any much less attention-grabbing than any split-second chronograph or grand sonnerie. What you’re looking at is a watch that’s correct to ±1 second per yr — that’s not a typo. It’s a exceptional achievement that makes it the world’s most correct autonomous watch. And it matches its peerless accuracy with the all the sensibilities related to conventional Japanese watchmaking. That is an in-depth take a look at the Citizen Caliber 0100 watch.
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three. HANDS-ON: SEIKO CREDOR GCLP995 ‘BIG DATE’ MANUAL-WIND SPRING-DRIVE WATCH
Credor is most well-known for its Eichi watches. The Eichi II, particularly, is a watch that’s hand-built to the very best requirements. And in some methods, it channels a lot of the spirit of Philippe Dufour. However Credor is extra than simply the Eichi. Not that you’d know as a result of the positioning remains to be, in spite of everything these years, out there solely in Japanese. However in the event you spend the time to flick thru, you’ll be rewarded with some very attention-grabbing watches. And one in all them is the watch you see right here, the Credor GCLP995. It encompasses a hand-wound spring drive motion and an enormous date complication that calls to thoughts the Lange One. Have a better take a look at it by hitting the hyperlink beneath.
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four. WHO WILL SAVE SWISS MADE?
We’re deep within the throes of a pandemic and a few say we haven’t seen the worst. Total industries are being upended and hundreds of jobs have been or are going to be misplaced. In occasions like these, the watch trade is usually one of many hardest hit. And I’m not simply speaking about gross sales. The continued pandemic has had a serious affect on manufacturing in China, too, and this has affected the watch trade, as a result of, in case you don’t know, not all watch parts are literally manufactured in Switzerland. On this article, we look at how COVID-19 would possibly have an effect on the watch trade, particularly, the label “Swiss Made.”
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5. SEIKO PROSPEX ‘KING TURTLE’ CERAMIC BEZEL SRPE05 & SRPE07 WATCH REVIEW
The “Turtle” has been one in all Seiko’s hottest entry-level dive watches. Seiko is aware of this and has been releasing new variants of the watch at a speedy tempo over the previous years. And now, now we have a brand new model that’s extensively regarded to because the “King Turtle” due to the upgrades that it has over the unique. Two of essentially the most important upgrades are a sapphire crystal and a ceramic bezel. These are two facets that longtime Turtle homeowners have lamented the absence of, and it’s good to see that Seiko is taking homeowners’ suggestions critically.
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