But I understood the looking. I look too. Spotted at and boosted from The Watchismo Times: Baume & Mercier watches Is it Swiss by business-garden
May 142008
May 072008
Are you an online shopper? Ooh, I sure am. I love it. In fact, I’ve little doubt that the massive antipathy I’ve built toward Wal-Mart, malls, and bricks-and-mortars in general is exacerbated by the ease of shopping online. Amazon.com is my go-to. I’ve completed perhaps 300 transactions there over the past decade. On the rare [...]
Apr 122008
We have a P.F. Chang’s at the new Bridge Street Peoplequarium. Melanie took me out for my birthday there yesterday. The food, service, and atmosphere were all enjoyable, but you’d have a hell of a time credibly hanging any sort of “value” label on it (considerably more so than you would on “eating out” in [...]
Dec 162007
The yellow-dial 7S26 Seiko diver (SKXA35) is a relatively recent addition to my collection. I quite like the dial. It is the very yellowest thing in the history of the world. Nothing before or since has been this yellow. I sold my last yellow watch more than five years ago, and I’m pleased to bring [...]
Sep 092007
Steve Fossett wears a Breitling Emergency wristwatch. As you can see, it’s a good-looking multifunction analog/digital. It’s also got Breitling’s temperature-compensated Superquartz movement, so it’s highly accurate. What makes it really special, though, is that it contains an emergency transmitter. The wearer can unscrew and extend the antenna (the large knob near the lower right [...]