Looking for Citizen Campanola Watches? This eBay Store Often Has a Few For Sale
I often talk about the Citizen Campanola line of watches; one of my favorite lines from the popular Japanese watch maker Citizen. As you know, Citizen Campanola watches represent the very finest in watch making that Citizen can achieve, and their efforts are worth noticing. The Citizen Campanola series serves a very important purpose for watch enthusiasts. It is one of the first line of watch models that is able to provide high quality cases with beautiful designs, and provide a high number of complications at very reasonable prices.The key to this is providing top of the line, hand assembled quartz movements, instead of their mechanical counter-parts. As you likely know, the watch world is sometimes split in to the quartz side and mechanical side. Purists will always stick with the charm of a mechanical watch. They enjoy the idea of wearing a machine on their wrist. However, the quartz movements used in the Citizen Campanola series are nothing to scoff at, and certainly not cheap. Th

Hands-On with the Melbourne Portsea Heritage
Almost one year ago I had the pleasure of reviewing the Melbourne Watch Company's Portsea models. A play on Marine chronometers, these nautically themed watches had great style, unique elements, a cool movement with calendar complications and a great price. They were, and still are, one of my favorite casual watches under $1,000. By taking a classic style and adding some modern elements, namely a layered dial that utilizes ceramic discs, they created something very successful and very wearable.To follow up the first series, Melbourne has taken the interesting approach of making a more stripped down and therein more affordable version with the Portsea Heritage. Typically, brands tend to add in more complex versions with the success of a simple three-hander, but in a move that speaks to Melbourne's goal of making very obtainable watches, the new Heritage version drops the Miyota 9120 for a Seiko NH35 and sheds about $200 of the price tag coming in in the low $400's (currency and model de

What watches would you compliment this AP with
How would you complete a 3/4 watch collection with this beauty?

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Panerai 393
I've been looking at this for a few weeks now and seriously thinking it could be my next watch. What do you think? My wrist is 6 5/8 so 42mm seems about as large as I can go. Is it too thick? Should I look at something else from the brand? It would be my first Panerai. Grateful for any and all opinions.