Hanhart Primus Survivor Pilot Watch
When you break it down to the bare bones, watches are there to tell the time. Throughout their history, these tools have been redesigned to fit their environment. Nowadays, watches exist more as status symbols and as beautiful artisanal artefacts, and so the environment has become one of luxury, not survival. But before the digital age, before we had the time to appreciate the keeping of time, watches were called upon to play a much more important role. Dive watches, trench watches, pilot watchesThese timepieces were born of necessity, and with them, enduring design principles emerged.?The Hanhart Primus Survivor Pilot Watch is clearly of the same blood, but does its heart beat to the same tune?The Hanhart Primus Survivor Pilot is aimed at those with an "intense professional life and active leisure time."?That's a difficult balance for any company to strike. When the aim of design is balance, the risk is always compromise. The Hanhart Primus is trying to prove that it's possible to des

Tourneau Attempts To Explain High-End Watches To The 'Average Guy'
How is it that in today's day and age, watch advice falls into the "grooming" category is a mystery to me. Maybe you keep your watches in the bathroom, I don't knowAside from this odd categorization, internet 'guy advice' video series Mansome spends some time at major watch retailer Tourneau to acquire some simple advice for your average man on buying a timepiece (tip # 1, watches aren't exactly like shaving razors).Mansome host Will Chase speaks with Michael Gordon at Tourneau, who you need to give credit to for trying to explain the complex topic of timepieces in just a few statements. Chase probably emulates the sentiments of your typical watch buyer rather well. If you are reading watches-dealer you are no doubt way beyond the level of someone who would benefit from this video, but what do you think of the advice and suggestions? Good for the novice watch buyer or is there perhaps something better for these people to hear?

Watches and F1: Oris and Williams F1
It's strange how sponsorship pairings just click sometimes. Intentional or no, every once in a while, a team and their sponsor will resemble each other beyond the superficialities of brand partnership, and the resulting synergy can produce some truly great successes. A great example of this in the watchmaking world is the 11-year partnership between Oris and Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Both companies, while not necessarily the flashiest or most well-known in their respective sectors, have a reputation for quietly producing some of the most capable, technically advanced machinery in their fields.The reasons for this between the two varies, however. In the case of Oris, while the company produces cutting-edge and innovative mechanical pieces such as the Big Crown ProPilot Altimeter, the first-ever wristwatch with a mechanical altimeter (find out more on that in Mark McArthur Christie's excellent write- up here), the brand has simply never captured the greater public's interest in th

Question on AP Polishing
Hi Guys,Im new to AP. Would like to know if I will have them polish some Scratches and Nips, if they would take out the screw at the caseback and remove the movement.Thanks!

Sometimes I wish my
Bluesy looked like this !!! I think I'm starting to fall out of passion with TT !!! I don't know what happened... I had a BLNR and let it go with no regrets... Yes, I still think it's a great watch but I didn't miss it that much ... I find myself wearing the SD4K more and hardly wearing the blue sub ...The SD4K is my first all SS with black Dial and bezel Rolex and I feel quite enamored with it . I've tried the 116610 LN at my AD quite awhile back and felt nothing.What is it about the sea dweller? I'm sure I'd love the SD 43 50th Anniversary no doubt as well ... I really like the raised crystal with a clean look to it . The graduated bezel is very symmetrical and proportionate giving it anice clean look like the ND Sub C... Slimmer lugs and Great wrist presence too !!! I don't understand what's happening, I think my tastes could be changing... I still think the Bluesy is a great watch , maybe I might be toning down my flavor as I get older ... I thought it's supposed to be the other wa