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Swiss Quality & Affordable

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These are fashion watches from designers that draw the bigger bucks for significant established brand renown (plus, a couple cheapy beaters, just for the heck of it). Continue reading

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Dense Dials – Pilots, Outdoorsmen, Divers

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New in the Citizen lineup introduced at the last Baselworld, the ISO certified BN2029-01E is a brute of a watch that is a competent auto start 70m depth meter that will recall the maximum depth and with a rapid ascent alarm. Continue reading

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Aviation Series G-Shock Watches

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Casio has hit on a winning formula and they are running with it. All analog dial (you know, sweeping hands, subdials, and, except for the newest model GA1000 and a couple of the older, discontinued models, no digital numeric readouts), round case, thick, chunky, and with lots of nifty features, the Aviation Series (aka, Sky Cockpit, Gravity Defyer, Gravity Master) watches appeal to more prospective buyers than you’d expect. Amazon is doing a brisk business with a few of these products. Continue reading

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GPS + Atomic Sky Cockpit G-Shock

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The first hurdle
..that a GPS watch must leap is the power problem. Having to dock your watch almost every time you use it just plain sucks. Continue reading

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