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Why Orient Keeps Showing Up in the Value Conversation
Orient builds its own movements, rates them more tightly than its rivals and fits sapphire where others do not. That is why its watches keep making the shortlist.
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Why Orient Keeps Showing Up in the Value Conversation
Orient builds its own movements, rates them more tightly than its rivals and fits sapphire where others do not. That is why its watches keep making the shortlist.
Collector Culture
Why the Orient Bambino Still Matters
It is not rare, expensive or complicated. The Bambino matters because it lets people find out what a traditional mechanical watch is for less than $300, and because of what that price says about how it is made.
Collector Culture
The Quiet Return of the 38mm Watch
Nobody announced it. Makers simply started drawing their best watches a few millimeters smaller, and the numbers show it.
Mechanical Watches
Inside Orient’s In-House Mechanical Movements
Orient’s calibers are not famous, and they are not finished to impress. They are designed and made by the same company that sells the watch, and that explains most of what Orient does well.
Japanese Watchmaking
How Spring Drive Works
It has a mainspring, a gear train and no battery. It also has a quartz crystal and a circuit. Here is what Spring Drive actually does, and what that means if you own one.
Value Watches
How to Read a Watch Spec Sheet
Every number on a spec sheet was put there by someone who wants to sell you the watch. Here is what each one actually tells you, and what the missing ones say.
Japanese Watchmaking
Why Japanese Mechanical Watches Keep Winning New Collectors
The case for starting in Japan is not nostalgia or hype. It is three vertically integrated companies, a clear ladder from entry level to luxury, and dials that do more than the price suggests.
Value Watches
Can a $300 Mechanical Watch Be a Serious Watch?
Serious does not mean expensive. It means a watch that tells you the truth about itself, can be kept running for years and looks like someone meant it. Some $300 watches clear that bar.
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