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Took the time briefly to take a family portrait of my Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402 I had started this family originally with the A-818. The 5402 family and particularly the A-series belonged into th

....historic terms: the Tissot Research Idea 2001 with the Tissot 2250 "Autolub" in the engine room. This was the first watch with mechanical movement in plastic ("the Astrolon movement"). A revolutio

....and it was all about map reading and compass. And IWC was an innovative watch-tech company. Enclosed the IWC Compass, reference 3510, produced from 1978 - 1986. The company PVD-coated the aluminum

.....IWC created in 1988 the antimagnetic watch Ingenieur line 3501 with the movement 37590. This is a bit of a special in kind, as they avoided steel and other magnetic metals to the largest extent.

I was wearing this week one of my two IWC Aquatimers (ref. 812) which has this very nice symbolized submariner on the outer case-back. This ignited the idea of browsing through all the nice, special c