Author: hands.faces.cases

Owner review: Nicholas Hacko NHW MKII

Obviously there is no detailed history of horology in Australia, but when there is, the Nicholas Hacko NHW MKII will feature as it’s a pioneering watch in so many ways and represents an incredible achievement for independent watchmaking regardless of geography. It occurs to me that watches have been assembled in Australia on and off…
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16/01/2023
Owner review: Bradley Taylor Paragon

I first saw the Bradley Taylor Paragon early in February of 2021. Without doubt, it was the perfectly crafted purple hands that captured and held my gaze. After my eyes finally scanned the rest of the dial it was apparent that the light play on the uniquely designed applied Breguet style numerals was also breathtaking.…
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08/09/2022
Owner review: Visitor Vale Park Officer

The Visitor Vale Park Officer is a watch that has a no nonsense military feel about it. It gives off the sense that it’s up for any kind of adventure that you are willing to share with it! I have not doubt that the the Visitor Vale Park Officer design is polarising. Some will see…
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06/12/2021
Editorial: A visit to Hentschel Hamburg

HOROLOGY IN HAMBURG A marine chronometer is very different from a chronograph. Some watch collectors do genuinely get mixed up and don’t realise that a chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship to help determine the ship’s position by celestial navigation. The chronometer is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich…
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03/12/2021
Owner Review: Zentier Z2

Zentier Z2 ? Yep …. Like all of you I’d never herd of it. Thanks to our good friend @scaramanga__, who has a great eye for cool, different and appealing pieces that are off the beaten track, for bringing it to the attention of his followers. Why then is the Zentier Z2 in my watch…
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15/11/2021
Owner Review: Longines Heritage Military – Connected to the Past

Piercing pain of singing cicadas, dry and dusty smells of a silver mining town and the scorching hot grass leading under the constantly cool corrugated iron water tank that supplied the house. All these memories are seared into my being. Various things remind me from time to time of my childhood but they are somewhat…
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11/05/2021
Owner Review: Vortic Watch – Restoring Classics to their Former Glory

We all know about American Muscle Cars and many of us will attest to being Mustang, Charger, Corvette or Camaro fans but have you heard of the American Muscle Watch from Vortic? Nah… me neither until I started to pen this review and it just felt right to coin the phrase. I have not doubt…
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18/02/2021
Owner Review: Ebel 1911 BTR GMT – The Quizzical Comfort of Cotton Balls

What do you get when you cross a hardcore military born hummer with a Lexus LC coupe … something very much like an Ebel 1911 BTR GMT … It even sounds like a sports car… it’s obviously not! What we have here is the most comfortably curvaceous, brick busting, muscular sports watch I think I’ve…
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21/11/2020
Owner Review: Holthinrichs Raw Ornament

There is much more to this Holthinrichs Raw Ornament watch than at first meets the eye. Its wearability cannot be totally understood without having it on the wrist. The details of the case can not be fully appreciated without taking it off the strap and staring at it from multiple angles. The movement is hand…
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28/10/2020