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Ophion OPH 786 Watch
A young brand based in Spain, Ophion has just launched its second model. The Ophion OPH 786 watch’s concept is based on early pocket watches and is expressed not only in its guilloche dial, Roman numerals, and traditional-looking hands, but in the movement design and decoration as well. For under 2,000, this is a micro brand offering a package with a lot of value, interesting features, and solid specs, and I’m excited to help introduce it.We like to support new and upcoming brands when we feel they offer value or something unique, and Ophion does both. Ophion positions each collection in a particular historical era, with their first model, the Ophion OPH 960 (enthusiastically reviewed here), taking design cues from the 1960s. From the OPH 960 and the 1960s, the new Ophion OPH 786 watch is based on pocket watches from the 1700s – Breguet, in particular – reaching a bit further back than so many of the “new-vintage” models and rereleases we see today t
Memoirs Of A Watchmaker: Coming Of Age With Horology
I came of age in the 1960's and 1970's in New England. If you asked most of my schoolmates back then what they wanted to be when they grew up, most would have said a fireman, policeman, cowboy, politician, lawyer, doctor, teacher, sailor¡­. just about anything but a watchmaker. The average age of watchmakers in the 1960's and 1970's was around 50 years old, and it seemed, at least in the United States, to be a dying breed, perhaps even an endangered species. Americans didn't value watchmakers as highly skilled technicians, as they did in Switzerland and other European communities, they more or less saw them as the equivalent of a plumber, electrician, house painter or refrigerator repair man. Not something to strive for when you're young ¡­didn't seem glamorous like a secret agent, lawyer, or computer punch card operator¡­. or something to get girls with like the lead singer of a rock band.So when my Dad decided when I was 12, to take me to his retail jewelry store on Saturdays to teach m