Corum Coin Watch 50th Anniversary Edition
Ah, to be a collector. These days, there are any number of things you can get yourself into thanks to the wide reach of the Internet. Want to start collecting golden-age comics? Start your search online. How about something more esoteric like, say, vintage safety razors. Again, head online. Of course, the more established things, like stamps and coins, have places on the web you can go to. If you want to start blending these collections, however, then it gets a bit more tricky. For 50 years now, coin collectors have had a very prominent watch that they could aspire to collect from Corum. Since we’re now at that golden anniversary, it should be no surprise that we now have the Corum Coin Watch 50th Anniversary model.Now, we will have to give the brand a little bit of latitude when it comes to celebrating this anniversary-the very first Corum Coin Watch was introduced in 1964, and of course, we are now in 2015 (51 years later). How to get around that little detail? Well, by using c
The Nivrel Shark Sea Tourbillon Is A Rare Tourbillon In A Sea Of Glamour
We know that tourbillon watches are expensive. The complex little movements are at a premium based on the difficultly of manufacture and the prestige of owning one. The bar has been set pretty high with all variations of multi axis tourbillons and flying tourbillons that give a great view of the action. What ever happened to just the basic tourbillon? Because more tourbillon watches go for $50k and up, the proprietors of such luxuries feel the need to spruce them up with lots of gilding and fancy appointments to justify the prices. That is typically the case with most tourbillon watches that feel more a like novelty than like something worth wearing on a daily basis. But it doesn’t need to be that way.The Nivrel “Sea” series has always been a diver’s watch line that I have admired. I know of Nivrel’s reputation for high quality construction and meticulous attention to detail (what else would you expect from a serious German watch maker?), and now I know th