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WATCH GIVEAWAY: Orient Star Contemporary Semi Skeleton
A new month has begun, and as always that means the beginning of a new giveaway here on best watches. For February 2020, we're offering up an Orient Star Contemporary Semi Skeleton watch. Part of Orient's premium Orient Star line, the Contemporary Semi Skeleton combines classically handsome design with an in-house movement and specifications that punch far above its price range.The simple, masculine lines of the 39.3mm stainless steel case offer a clean backdrop to the artisanship within. A sapphire crystal and 100 meters of water resistance ensure a solidly modern level of performance, while a broad display window showcases the manufacture automatic movement at work.
Montegrappa Pirates Watch
I really want to meet the people who buy and wear Montegrappa‘s flamboyant watches such as the Montegrappa Pirates watch. This is the third and so far most accessibly priced in what has become a series from the Italian pen-maker. The Montegrappa Pirates watch case is crammed with almost comically familiar pirate motifs in high relief, and its release just ahead of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales film is probably not coincidental.It began for Montegrappa with the Chaos watch (hands-on here) that was covered with three-dimensional skulls, snakes, and “roads of fire,” and was apparently designed by Sylvester Stallone. The follow-up was its thematic antithesis, though right in line with the over-the-top nature, with the angel-themed My Guardian Angel watch (hands-on). These watches are lighthearted takes on their respective themes – as if they could be anything else – and the Montegrappa Pirates returns once again to the cartoonishly macab