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November 12, 2014

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How to Buy a Watch Part 1: Watch Style

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Here at TimeScapeUSA, we love the clients for whom a fine timepiece constitutes an impulse item.  It's raining out, so in a fit of pique you purchase a dive watch rated to a thousand meters.  A sad song on the radio reminds you of your First Girl, and while you can never have her back, that dial on that rose gold dress piece is the same color as her eyes. As for the rest of us, we realize that a watch can be a daunting purchase.  Before you deploy the hard-earned lucre more rightly stashed in the kid's college fund, allow us to advise you on the proper process for acquiring that one of a kind piece.

Today in Part 1 I'll describe some of the major districts in the country of contemporary watch design, while in Part 2 I'll usher you through the process of judging the merits of any particular timepiece.  While one's own taste must be the final arbiter, greater knowledge is hardly a disadvantage.

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November 04, 2014

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Resale Pieces


Ulysse Nardin MichelangeloResale and acquired with assurance

There comes a time when even the best of friends must part, and so it can be with you and a treasured time piece.  Whether it's a liquidation in favor of ready cash or the pretext for something bigger and better, selling watches has been a part of owning watches for a long as there have been people with the means to acquire them.

On the other hand, a vintage or resale piece can be particularly attractive to the connoisseur and bargain-hunter alike.  For a unique watch or one long out of production, there is usually no alternative – unless you know of a little place somewhere employing the ghosts of Jean-Marc Vacheron and George Daniels, still laboring at their trade.

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October 01, 2014

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Water Resistance and Watch Pressure Testing

timescape waterproof watchesWhat makes a watch water-resistant?
“But my watch is waterproof!”
How many times have you seen an SUV upside-down in a ditch after the first snow fall?  That idiot is hanging by the seatbelts in Dad's Lamborghini LM002 because he didn't know what the capacities and limitations of 4-wheel-drive vehicle actually are.
“Waterproof” watches can get you in the same kind of trouble.  When we properly say a watch is water resistant, all we
mean is that the case has the ability to exclude water to a certain depth – and for our purposes, when we say depth we mean pressure.
The watch industry has largely abandoned the term “waterproof,” even for its professional diving pieces.  It's a false promise, and owing to legal guidelines set by the Federal Trade Commission and the International Organization for Standardization, we are barred from making it.[1]  There is always a way for water to get inside your watch, and the challenge for the this industry (and your humble servants at TimescapeUSA) is to constrain it however we can.

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September 19, 2014

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Blog 2 Watch Winders

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A Blog 2 Watch About Winders

Eventually, every watch enthusiast reaches a point where he or she simply has too many watches to wear.  Unless you're the dear departed Nicholas Hayek, there just isn't enough room under the sleeves of your bespoke jacket to carry – and in so doing, wind – all those magnificent, mechanical, automatic pieces.  What to do?

Here at TimescapeUSA, we humbly suggest you consider a watch winder.  This isn't another desktop trinket like the monogrammed Brookstone pen set Grandma picked out.  Watch winders serve a practical, three-fold purpose.

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April 09, 2014

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Basel 2014 - SEIKO ASTRON - CHRONOGRAPH

Seiko Astron SSE005

THE ASTRON REVOLUTION

The Astron revolution continues with two calibers and 26 models, the Astron revolution takes another important step forward for 2014. No watch on earth could better express Kintaro Hattori’s vision that Seiko should always be “one step ahead of the rest.” To connect to the GPS network using just the power of light was already a miraculous achievement. To add a chronograph and an electronic setting function in the crown, all in a smaller case size, demonstrates that Astron is re-defining the industry’s idea of what a watch can deliver. The 2014 Astron collection sets a new world standard in electronic watchmaking.

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April 08, 2014

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Basel 2014 - GS -"Self-dater" Re-edition

GS Grand Seiko MinnesotaHomage to the Original 1964 "Self-dater"For 2014 the Grand Seiko collection includes five new creations that pay homage to a 1964 watch that is fondly remembered by devotees of the brand’s early history. Known as the “Self-dater”, it marked an important advance in the range of Grand Seiko fifty years ago, as it took the precision and luxury appeal of Grand Seiko and made them accessible to those who wanted a Grand Seiko watch that was more practical in everyday life. The 1964 “Self-dater”, as the rather awkward name implies, was the first Grand Seiko to incorporate a date window and was water resistant to 5 bar

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April 07, 2014

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Basel 2014 - Grand Seiko - Hi-beat GMT

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New Caliber 9S86 "Hi-beat 36,000 GMT"

Leading the creation for 2014 is the Hi-beat 36,000 GMT Limited Edition, designed especially to celebrate the launch of the new caliber. In both performance and appearance, it expresses the very best of Seiko’s mechanical watchmaking and raises traditional watchmaking to the level of art. The caliber has a high accuracy of +5 to -3 seconds a day and a power reserve of 55 hours. The GMT hand can be used as a dual time indicator with the hour hand being adjustable independently as the time of day hands continue to mark time. It is the perfect watch for the international traveler.

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