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10 Things That Piss Off High-End Watch Collectors?
It isn't easy being an enthusiast and customer of precious timepieces. In addition to dealing with the fact the rest of the world mostly doesn’t understand your frivolous-seeming yet authentic passion, you must cope with a universe of self-satisfying luxury brands, pretentious fellow collectors, and stuffy atmospheres that feel worse than the most conservative work functions – despite that people are there to enjoy celebratory items (watches). Being a watch lover and collector is a regular uphill battle with the real carrot on the end of the stick being the prospect of owning a stable of beautiful lifelong-lasting timepieces.If we agree that buying a good watch from a decent brand is the endgame (no matter how many times you repeat it) for most who are interested in quality timepieces, then let’s explore what I think are ten (in no particular order) of the most annoying things that piss off watch collectors in ways that seem to needlessly get in the way of our otherwi
TAG Heuer "50 Years of Carrera" Silicon Valley Boutique Event
TAG Heuer Carrera Mikropendulem2013 was a banner year for TAG Heuer. At SIHH in January the brand announced the Mikrogirder 2000?which is the first mechanical watch to measure time with 5/10,000th of a second precision; this surpasses even the best quartz watches. At Baselworld in the spring, they continued their assault on modern chronographs with the Carrera MikropendulumS, which can not only measure time with 1/100th of a second precision, but does so with a new escapement mechanism based on magnets–yes, the very thing that was once the sworn enemy of mechanical watches. To top this the MikropendulemS also includes two tourbillons escapements (one running at 4Hz and one at an incredible 50Hz.)As the year was also the 50th anniversary for the brand’s most popular model: the Carrera, a slew of new versions were also announced, including some with the new 1887 in-house movement as well as a reissued model in honor of the man who pretty much single-handedly created the Carre