The Collector's View
The Collector’s View: Why I bought a PAM000
The Panerai PAM000 is the most basic Panerai, but with so much hidden personality. It is often also referred to as the ‘zero’ or base logo,…
Browsing: The Collector’s View
The Collector's View
The Collector’s View: Spot the Watch: Melbourne Watch Collectors
Melbourne: a place I’ve called home for almost 9 years – that’s a third of my lifetime spent in this beautiful city. Here, the best coffees…
People
The Collector’s View: Watch Talk with Benjamin Laukis
Benjamin Laukis is a 33 year old international tattoo artist and avid watch collector based in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in realistic and portrait style tattooing…
News
The Collector’s View: Moonphase watches for the Mooncake Festival
Mid-autumn festival – also known as mooncake festival – is celebrated annually on the 15th day of the eighth Chinese lunar month when the moon is…
In Conversation
The Collector’s View: WatchTalk with Glenn Chiang
Glenn Chiang is a 31-year-old watch collector based in Melbourne, having moved from Taiwan when he was just 5 years of age. He is currently a…
News
Rare Watches: Omega Seamaster XVI Olympic Watch Ref. 2850SC
In the midst of the Olympic fever currently raging on in Rio de Janerio, we spoke to a true blue Omega collector and good Deployant Friend: George…
Opinion
The Vertical Collection: The most important and essential watches from A Lange & Söhne
In wine, there is an established tasting methodology known as vertical and horizontal tasting. In a vertical tasting, different vintages of the same wine type from the…
News
A Collector’s View: A review of a personal Patek Philippe Ref. 5270 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph
Several candidates spring to mind when one wonders what the most iconic Patek Philippe wristwatch might be. Is it the ever popular Nautilus? Perhaps one of…
Basel/Geneva/SIHH 2016
Review: Zenith El Primero Classic Car
Zenith’s contribution to the watch world has been remarkable by any measure. For starters, it was the first manufacture to create an automatic integrated column wheel…
Opinion
Yet it Turns: Iconic 1930s Watches which survived the Great Depression
People remember it as the Roaring Twenties, an era of great celebratory engagement following the Great War: The arts flourished, ushering in Art Deco, memories of destruction…