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Meet The Watch Butler
Those people fortunate enough to own many timepieces have likely found themselves in the unfortunate position of having to take care of many timepieces. The mere act of keeping just a dozen or so mechanical watches wound and accurately set – not to mention cleaned, stored, and serviced – is an almost daily chore unto itself. Watches, in order to be reliably useful, as well as for them to be set with the current time, need regular care and someone to look after them. In most cases, that responsibility falls on the owner, but what if there were a better way? One special person has an answer to this problem, and it might just be the beginning of the next “must-have” service craze for the world of watch owners.Enter a man who prefers to be inconspicuously known as “The Watch Butler.” He sells himself as a watch care and maintenance service provider, offering regular home calls to those with collections they cannot or will not take care of themselves. The
Rec RJM 04 Bluebird Limited Edition Watch Uses Spitfire Aluminum in Construction
Whenever a press release opens with the tale of Spitfire crashing into the Russian tundra during a dogfight, you find your interest piqued and your expectations of what is to follow suddenly raised. That was the experience I enjoyed yesterday when I opened the presentation pack for the REC RJM 04 Bluebird Limited Edition watch. This watch has a backstory like few others and, quite refreshingly for a piece whose design could have played a muted second fiddle to the material’s origin yarn, turns in a handsome performance on the wrist.REC previously released three models using metal recovered from the crashed PT879 (otherwise known as the “Russian” Spit). With just a little bit of metal left from the tip of the left-wing, a further project was conceived. Thus the REC RJM 04 Bluebird came to life with its aluminum date surround, set between 7 and 5 o’clock on a blue sunray dial.