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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Breitling Navitimer Automatic 41

2019 has been a big year for Breitling. With the Swiss luxury watchmaker, most renowned for its pilots’ watches, releasing new models in the Avenger, Aviator 8, SuperOcean, and Premier collections, the brand has undergone a refreshing year across all its collections, in a manner incredibly uncommon among manufacturers of its size. One of the...

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Oct 6, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Seiko 5 Sports

Ever since I began writing this column, I’ve wanted to cover the Seiko 5. Like many watch enthusiasts, it was an automatic Seiko 5 that first brought me into the world of watches, and I can recall many conversations I’ve had through the years with collectors and non-collectors alike on the many esteemed qualities of...

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Sep 15, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Mercer Lexington Chronograph

Mercer is a brand I’ve seen popping up on Instagram for the past year or so, and for a good reason. If you’re unfamiliar, the brand is a rising design house offering an assortment of watches in both vintage and modern styles, as well as a curated selection of leather goods. Even more impressively, Mercer...

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Sep 8, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Zodiac Olympos

Zodiac has long been one of my favorite brands, and the reasoning is simple: the company produces aesthetically interesting watches, frequently in a neo-vintage style, and almost always at an accessible price point. Nonetheless, we don’t cover this Fossil Group-owned brand very often here at “Vintage Eye,” with the most recent being the Astrographic. Funnily...

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Sep 1, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Hamilton Ventura

In my experience, most die-hard watch fans prefer mechanical watches, and this is especially true among vintage-watch enthusiasts. But the Hamilton Ventura is one of those exceptions that proves the rule, and I would argue it is perhaps even more desirable by virtue of its quartz movement. This space-age watch was developed to demonstrate hyper-accuracy...

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Jul 28, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Atelier de Chronométrie Watches

This week, as “Vintage Eye” returns from a brief summer hiatus, we’re going to delve into a market segment seldom explored in this series — the haute horlogerie microbrand scene — with Atelier de Chronométrie. This Barcelona-based manufacturer isn’t one frequently making headlines — a natural result of its filling a very narrow niche —...

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Jul 21, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Laco Navy Cuxhaven And Bremerhaven

Germany’s Laco isn’t a brand we frequently feature in this series. Part of the reason for this has to do with the brand’s relevancy in the American market, while another part has to do with its being overshadowed by numerous other German brands with stronger messaging. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean Laco isn’t offering good watches,...

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Jun 30, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Yema Rallye Andretti Limited Edition

This week we return to the French-based Yema and one of its most recent releases in the Rallye Andretti Limited Edition — a homage to one of the brand’s most famous historical designs now a part of its Motorsport Rallygraf Collection. The new piece commemorates the watch worn by racecar driver Mario Andretti during his unlikely...

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Jun 23, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage

Today we’ll be taking a look at one of the most recent offerings from the heritage collection of Swiss brand Alpina, the 1970s-inspired Startimer Pilot Heritage. Alpina, founded in 1883, is no stranger to neo-vintage watches, first making waves in the trend a few years ago with the release of its supercompressor-styled Seastrong Diver Heritage...

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Jun 9, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Méraud Bonaire

Neo-vintage dive watches are incredibly popular right now, both among major brands like Longines, Rolex, and Seiko, and among many smaller start-ups such as Evant, Baltic, and MAEN. One of the newest to the scene is Belgium-based Méraud with their 1960s-inspired Bonaire, a cool steel diver with an impressive value proposition. The watch originally came...

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Jun 2, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: RGM Model 222-RR

In the United states, where railroads, trains and the people who ran them are so intricately linked to the country’s national history, the locomotive profession and the watches purpose-built for them have long been romanticized. This is a common trend among many other jobs, and the watches associated with them, from the past hundred years...

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Apr 7, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Day Date 70s

After writing on the Baltic Aquascaphe a few weeks ago, I started thinking back to the original watch that inspired it: the Blancpain Bathyscaphe. Historically, the Bathyscaphe was something of the younger brother to the famed Fifty Fathoms series, the original model designed in 1952 for the French Navy— an industry -changing dive watch known...

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Mar 31, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse

Patek Philippe is one of the most celebrated brands in the history of watchmaking, but among its vast catalog of complications stand only a select number of long-running series. Among those we’ve covered in “Vintage Eye” are the Nautilus, Perpetual Calendar Chronograph, and Calatrava, yet a few notable collections remain. Among them are the Golden...

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Mar 17, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Weiss 38-mm Standard Issue Field Watch

In recent years, there has been a notable growth in the field of American-made watches. Detroit-based Shinola is frequently discussed, and Pennsylvania-based RGM has long been lauded in its efforts to bring handcrafted horological artistry back to the famed Lancaster area; but no list would be complete without mentioning Los Angeles’ Weiss Watch Company. The...

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Mar 10, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Baltic Aquascaphe

The year 2018 saw a proliferation of “micro” watch brands along with continuing popularity for contemporary, vintage-inspired watches, so it seems natural the market also saw significant growth in watch startups working to carve a name for themselves in the industry with “neo-vintage” products. Never far from this conversation has been the French brand Baltic,...

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Mar 3, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Hands-On with the Citizen Promaster Tsuno Chronograph Racer

In March of 2018, Citizen revealed the Promaster Tsuno Chronograph Racer, a 1970s inspired bullhead chronograph developed to commemorate a century of the company’s operation. The watch was considered a quick success among pundits and enthusiasts after its announcement, and I’ve been looking forward to going hands-on with it ever since. About a month ago, I...

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Feb 24, 2019 by Caleb Anderson

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Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Evant Decodiver

Some of my favorite watches to cover these days have been those produced by smaller brands. Whether they’re brands I’ve written about for this series, such as Maen and Nezumi, or those I’ve been beaten to covering by WatchTime editor Logan Baker (he’s quick), such as Brew and Seals Watch Co.— what has impressed me...

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Feb 17, 2019 by Caleb Anderson