Horological Meandering

Besides Raymond Weil, Movado is another brand that isn’t counted in horological circles. But I admit that they had nice looking cases and dials, minimalist style. Seeing the recent Weil releases, I got curious about what Movado was up to and found their i...  

including a "reverso"-style watch with a double-sided movement that was time on one side and chronograph on the other. -Dean

Not a bad looking watch. Retails for $1,495 USD and has a see thru caseback.

"Inside the Heritage 1917 35mm is a Swiss Made Sellita caliber SW200 automatic movement. You can view the movement through the caseback. It is offered in a simple form (not much decoration), but I do like the custom Movado automatic rotors. The SW200 move...  

Every day I’m convinced that the vintage pieces are my goal, are treasures.

Reminds me of one of my very first automatics, a Tissot Quadrato from like 2005! I’ll have to check out RW’s offering , to compare

…but this C-case re-edition of their 1970 El Primero Datron mines their own library and should have been a home run, but wasn’t. ETA 2894, of course. But there’s nothing wrong with that. I will need to seek out the Santos lookalike—very nice and I don’t t...  

I’m very interested to see the Santos version if you can find it.

…the complaint was that it was too expensive (at $3K) and it didn’t use a Zenith movement like the original (as if that could have even been possible). Of course, if it had used an El Primero like the original, the price would have been three times as muc...