Yesterday, I got a surprise package 🎁. I asked the sender, is it something that would spoil or melt? "Kind of..." So imagine my surprise opening the package and seeing crazy amounts of bubble wrap. 😱😱😱  After unwrapping, I find this Oris Artelier Moon Phase watch! 🤯 According to my research, this 581-7554 model was fr…

As someone who's always keen on getting a good deal, I found a watch that checks all the boxes at a bargain of $290 (£210 in 2021 exchange rate) -- The J&G Exciton II ! Unfortunately, this was a Kickstarter campaign from August 2021 and they're not going to make this version again. However, there are still some units lef…

It's been 2 years since I got the Seiko SNKL45 and it's still my number one watch for under $100.  When I bought it in 2019 (I bought it for less than $80 in a local e-commerce site), it was supposed to be a Christmas gift for someone else. After seeing the watch for myself, I ended up keeping it! I was attracted to the brow…

I bought this Pobeda Sputnik watch in December 2021, from a seller in Kharkov Ukraine, and I received it in February 23 2022, the day before the Russia-Ukraine war broke out. At first I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to make a video about Russian watches given recent events. Right now, people are boycotting Russian products a…

How to get cool watches for cheap? Well first and foremost, you have to define what you like, what's important to you, and what looks good on you. If you're always looking at what everyone else has, you won't be happy. You'll never be content if you keep looking at what your neighbor has. It's so easy to get swep…

I've always wanted the sleek Casio World Time Digital Watch. However, I didn't want to spend $65 on something I knew I wouldn't be using that much since I don't often travel to other time zones. I know buying an homage is never going to be as good as the original but I was curious enough to spend $11... so I bought t…

If you haven't heard of Parchie , it's a new brand for kids watches that was started by Cara Barrett mid-2021. In case you're not familiar with the name, Cara Barrett is a former editor of Hodinkee. Her vast experience in working on Hodinkee-limited edition watches led her to launching her own brand of fun watches for ki…

For those of you who haven't heard of Furlan Marri , it's a new watch brand that came out early this year 2021. Furlan Marri is a Swiss watch brand started by two people: Andrea Furlan, a Swiss industrial designer and Hamad Al Marri, a watch collector and an artist from the Middle East. When it came to their marketing in pre…