I guess I was limiting my concept of “factory” to huge Elgin, Waltham, Bulova type factories where the movements and everything were made in house. Do RGM and Bozeman actually make the whole watch? Or do they customize movements and call them their own watch. Not that I think any less of them for th
My background as a Video/ Electronic Engineer took me to the NAB (National Ass. of Broadcasters) conference in Los Vegas every year; what a zoo that was. So, I know the feeling of these "mega promos", where the people responsible for actually making the product get shoved behind the marketing execs
I am a recent graduate of Horology school and relatively new to the world of watchmaking; I am absolutely NUTS for watches. I feel kind of isolated though, because I don't get much opportunity to meet and hang out with many other watchmakers here around St Louis, MO. There are a precious few watchma
I bought a watch off of eBay and the guy listed it as a " mechanical automatic" chronograph. I expected it to be a automatic winding watch, but it was a manual wind up chronograph. I contacted the guy and told him about it, he responded like this: "For what it's worth, in my circle of watch friends