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Giuliano Mazzuoli at SalonQP

Posted on November 15, 2010 by the #watchnerd / 2 Comments

Giuliano Mazzuoli is a designer with a penchant for watches.   Having released the Manometro range in 2004 to not inconsiderable acclaim, he’s spent the past few years trying to develop a second range of watches.  Now, finally, and after four year’s effort Mazzuoli has released the Contagiri, a watch with three worldwide patents and a rather…

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Deep, deeper, deepest…

Posted on November 2, 2010 by the #watchnerd / 0 Comment

Just been asked a question on Twitter:  Why did Bell & Ross, Sinn, Beuchat, etc all try and make a seriously WR watch in the mid-90s? So I thought I’d try and write down some thoughts.  In the history of deep watches, Rolex were the first, with their Deep Sea Special on 30 September 1953;…

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How to make your millions… in food or watches

Posted on October 28, 2010 by the #watchnerd / 2 Comments

William Chase (founder of Tyrrell’s crisps and the award-winning Chase Vodka) has been talking to MSN recently about making one’s millions in food (see the full article here). Reading the article got me thinking that there really doesn’t appear to be much difference in the approach to marketing and selling food (crisps), drink (Vodka, gin…

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Beuchat Genesis 4000 HPS

Posted on October 7, 2010 by the #watchnerd / 0 Comment

Right. This one”s a little different. Most of what I know about this watch has been gleaned from French dive watch forums (see list below). There was a small arms race in watchmaking in the mid-90s: a race to develop oil-filled watches that would be able to resist incredible pressures (below 300ATM). One of the competitors,…

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Mid-dive-table mediocrity or how to spend $1000 on a watch (Part 1)

Posted on October 6, 2010 by the #watchnerd / 0 Comment

Spurred on by recent claims from new entrants that there is little to offer the consumer in the $1000 dive watch market, I thought I’d try and provide a brief synopsis of what’s really out there. As I see it, consumers have three basic choices in this market: 1) tried and test, “prosumer” watches, such as…

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