Photo Report: Watch And Car Spotting At Monterey Car Week 2016

If you’re into vintage cars and it’s late August, Monterey Car Week is without a doubt the place to be. This year we once again ventured out to California’s Central Coast to enjoy the sights and sounds at a few of the festivities – including the Quail Motorsports Gathering, the Vintage Rolex Meet-Up at Fourtané Jewelers, and, of course, the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Browse on for copious photos of the watches, and cars, that we saw along the way.

9 years ago

Cost Of Entry: Omega Watches

No less than a giant in the watch world, and with more than a few fans in the aBlogtoWatch community, our Cost of Entry series would be incomplete without Omega Watches and a look at the brand’s most affordable automatic timepiece available today.

9 years ago

LAST CHANCE: Melbourne Watch Company Portsea Automatic Watch Giveaway

Don’t miss your chance to enter our August 2016 giveaway for a chance to win a Melbourne Watch Company Portsea Automatic watch on aBlogtoWatch.com. There are still a few days left, so click here to enter, as well as learn more about the watch and the giveaway. Good luck and don’t forget to check our awesome watch giveaways each month on aBlogtoWatch.

9 years ago

Around Alone, 50 Years On: Sir Francis Chichester’s Rolex Oyster Perpetual

Sailing is still somewhat of a luddite’s pursuit in 2016, but in the 1960s it was even more so. Communication – pre satellite phone – was by radio transmission, weather forecasting was largely guesswork, and navigation was positively 19th-century. GPS was decades away and wayfinding at sea still required the use of a sextant, charts, and a very accurate timepiece. So when Sir Francis Chichester set off from Portsmouth, England, 50 years ago today, on August 27, 1966, he might as well have been sailing back in time.

9 years ago

Review: A. Lange & Söhne Langematik

First launched in 1997, the Langematik is the first self-winding watch from A. Lange & Söhne. A brave move by the brand and also a watershed release, the Langematik is arguably one of the most characteristic watches from the brand. Particularly due to its spectacular new manufacture movement; the L921.2 was one of Lange’s earliest…

9 years ago

Weekend Reading: This 31-Year-Old Woman Is In Charge Of The Pennsylvania State Capitol’s Antique Clocks

One of horology’s many foibles is that it is traditionally a male-dominated field. Luckily, things are getting a little more egalitarian (though slowly) and we’re seeing more and more incredible women doing everything from designing movements to leading major watch brands. Quietly, a young woman in Pennsylvania has been keeping important antiquarian clocks ticking in America now for a number of years. Click through for the full story.

9 years ago

The Independent Watchmakers’ Struggle: Why It’s So Hard And What They Can Do

I love independent watchmaking and independent watchmakers; one of my great joys as a collector is having the feeling that, in a small way, I am supporting their efforts.
So I put some thought into why independent watchmakers struggle in a business sense and how they can remain relevant in changing market situations.

9 years ago

HourTime Show ‘Experiments’ Watch Podcast Now As Video & Audio Show

aBlogtoWatch audience members who subscribe to our YouTube channel may be wondering why I haven’t yet mentioned anything about “HourTime Experiments,” a new series of videos we have been trying to upload on a somewhat regular basis. For a long time, I wanted to bring the show back, but do something a bit different.

9 years ago