When I think of Hamilton as a brand, there are two things that come to my mind, Hollywood and aviation. I have to admit, this is a rather schematic image of a company born in 1892, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that over the years laid several watchmaking milestones — the first electronic watch, the Ventura or […]
I am sitting alone on my back deck. It is dinner time and no one is around. The birds are chirping and the trees are rustling. The only other sound is the traffic. At this moment, I am a very ordinary man sitting in a very ordinary backyard in Montreal. Just 20 hours ago, nothing […]
A Man and His Watch entered its second printing this year after selling out of its first run last October. A coffee table book for the WIS crowd, it struck a chord with watch lovers and, if the response to it on the forums is anything to go by, filled an unmet need in the […]
The motor racing chronograph and this particular Oris is what watches were all about for me ever since the beginning. I was an F1 fanatic since the age of 12 and this led me to luxury watches. A racing chronograph is like a little piece of motorsports on your wrist. Oris, in particular, plays a […]
If there was a school for this complication, I would have to be placed in a remedial class for it. Setting up a GMT – let alone reading off time zones like a pro – hasn’t been an easy task for me. I counted it a personal victory when I managed to set my Kinetic […]