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Glashutte Original Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date Finally Sees More Sport Watches Back In Brand
For 2019 German Glashutte Original debuts not only a new series of sports watches but the fifth pillar in the brand’s timepiece families known as “Spezialist.” The first Glashutte Original Spezialist is the diver-themed Spezialist SeaQ which comes in two overall flavors for 2019 with the larger Specialist SeaQ Panorama Date which I will cover in this article, and also the smaller 39.5mm wide Glashute Original Spezialist SeaQ 1969 that will be covered in a separate best watches article. In many ways this Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date watch is the spiritual successor to the similarly sized and also diver’s style Glashutte Original Senator Sport Evolution from over a decade ago.The overall dial and bezel design of the Spezialist SeaQ Panorama Date is based on historic Glashutte-area sport watches produced by the then local watchmakers there under socialist control. Despite what you might think of state-owned and controlled watchmakers, the 1960s and 1970s were an e
Tempvs Compvtare Sea Shepherd Watch
Some people speak for the trees, and others speak for the whales, and dolphins (and porpoises, sharks, turtles, and umm…. others animals). Enter the Sea Shepherd Conservation society, its boats, and its vagabond band of activists. Some people call them eco-terrorists, some call them the only people out there actively trying to do something about the problems of illegal whaling and other vicious anti-Earth activities. Personally, I am glad that someone is doing more than just whining on a sidewalk in Berkeley. You can talk all the crap you want to about people like those who volunteer at Sea Shepherd, but dammit they mean what they say, and are proactive. They kind of realized that protesting alone was the worst way of getting anything done. Oh, and they actually sink ships I hear, which is pretty cool.Here is a special edition watch dedicated to Sea Shepherd and the activist writer Farley Mowat. The watch is based on the standard Tempvs Compvtare watch that I wrote about here. Yo