I haven’t touched this watch in about 4 months or more. It ran out of battery and just sat there. But then this week I decided it was just too cool to be left dormant. I’ve slapper a fresh battery in and it’s kicked back in to life. How do
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Alsta was a brand owned by Alstater Watch Company from New York. They imported Swiss movements and cased them in the US and unfortunately succumbed to the quartz crisis in the late 70s. The brand was revived by Robert the Bruce (Angus MacFayden) in 2014 and has steadily produced
Bulova are about to re-re-release the Devil Diver. In 2018 Bulova re-issued/re-released/dragged out of the archive kicking and screaming the Bulova Oceanographer Snorkel from 1969. They used the more iconic white broad hands rather than the earlier straight steel hands – collectors have a preference. It was 44 mm wide
Bulova 14EB ⚙️ 17 jewel ⚙️ 18,000 A/h ⚙️ 1970 This Bulova 14EB is a modified Valjoux 7733 which is a chronograph movement featuring two sub dials of running seconds and minutes passed. Bulova used this movement from 1969 to 1973. The watch here is the Deep Sea Chronograph “Surf
Buren was quite an impressive watch company. They developed their own in house calibres – and made a lot of them. They were specifically good at making thin wrist watch movements. Founded in 1873 in the small town of Büren an der Aare they produced simple cylinder escapement pocket watches, manufacturing completely in house.
My name is Murph and I wanted to start a blog as an outlet for my passion for watches and all things related to watches. I started collecting watches in 2017. I needed a new hobby to replace my first love – cars. I just could not keep collecting cars