Author: tapir_ffm
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Owner Review: Ochs Und Junior Moonphase – What happens if you combine math, KISS and poetry?
Ochs and Junior fascinated me right from the beginning. The idea of owning a watch of one of the most important living watch makers and the uncompromised and stringent design mesmerized me, so that I was even looking into buying the «settima junior», a watch intended for children! (It showed the weekdays, which I found…
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Owner Review: Tian Harlan Chromachron – Colourful is my favorite colour
Encouraged by the recent reviews of quartz watches, I want to show you the first kind of real (?) watch I ever bought … from this purchase on I always check what I – and others – have on the wrist. During my time at university I spent 6 months as an intern at a…
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Owner Review: Sinn 900 Flieger – At home on land, under water and in the air
In my small portfolio, the Sinn 900 Flieger («pilot») is the oldest and one of the first «proper» watches I ever bought. And for me, the 900F is still one of the hottest watches in the Sinn range. The 900F has a very clean and uncluttered face, while still offering a lot of information: a…
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Owner Review: Breitling Navitimer Airborne Chronograph – You don’t have to be a pilot to love – and use!
Back in the early 80s I finished school in the last grade which did the math exams using logarithmic tables and slide rules. Of course I used only electronic calculators (RPN for those of you who care) since then, but I kept on admiring people – from my father to the legendary women and men…
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Owner Review: Oak & Oscar Humboldt
I came across Oak & Oscar on the web and was immediately attracted by the exceptionally well balanced design of their watches. I can hardly buy a watch I’ve never seen in the metal, but it happened when Oak & Oscar’s Chase and John (very nice guys btw!) hosted a GTG in Frankfurt! I tried…
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[…] some readers may know I am a lover of ochs und junior watches (you can read about this here,…
I traded my Speedy Reduced 3510.50 for a moonwatch of a different sort - the Ochs und Junior Selene Tinta.…