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Oris BC3 Sportsman 42mm Watch
More relatively affordable Swiss watch action from Oris. New for 2010 is this updated BC3 Sportsman model in a 42mm case. This is about as no nonsense as you’d want to get with a watch, and Oris keeps all the functionality you’ve come to expect in this collection. For years that have been centrally aligning the day and date windows for a nice clean look. As you can see, at 6 o’clock you have two stacked windows with the calendar information. Done well with white text on black discs to match the dial. Hands are long and easy to read, almost as though the watch were a dive watch. The hands and some of the numeral markers are coated in SuperLumiNova for ease of reading. That combined with the well placed markers make this one highly legible watch. The Arabic numerals on the dial are polished steel, and applied to the dial.Oris watches never forgo at least some decoration. The 42mm wide steel case has a thin polished ring around bezel that matches the polished crown. The
Grand Seiko SBGH252 & SBGH254 Two-Tone Watches
You have probably already read the important news?here that, from?2017 onwards,?Grand Seiko?is?being presented as a separate brand from Seiko. On that note, our editor David wanted to make a couple of points before Kenny gives you all the details on the watches. There are a bunch of things to be expected from Seiko’s news, but if there’s anything I think all best watches team members will agree on it is that we’d love for Seiko to become much,?much more organized. As a case in point are these very attractive new Grand Seiko SBGH252 and SBGH254 two-tone watches, conveniently released less than 2 weeks after Baselworld and – you guessed it – totally not on show at the fair.Onto the watches in a moment, but just one more brief paragraph’s worth of ranting because, Seiko, guess what: getting your products to your key audience and customer base is a more pressing issue than fine-tuning obscure details like how many times a dial says?Seiko on it. Seiko has