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It's a beast, a Red Beast! Specifically it's an Orient M-Force Red Beast CEX04001H0. This watch is something of an acquired taste, I think. Clearly I acquired it.

This model has been discontinued for some time -- I'm not sure how long exactly but several years. It was finally replaced in 2012 by the new Orient 'Beast', references SEL06001H (burgundy red dial), SEL06001D (blue dial), and SEL06001B ...

Updated 18th November 2012 at 05:49 by markrlondon (Fixed typos)

Tags: cex04001h0, m-force, orient, red beast, today's watch

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Today we have a 1960s Uno with a seconds subial. This Swiss Made watch has a gold plated (or at least gold colour) case and a rather lovely patinated dial. The dial looks to have originally had a silvery/creamy colour and has aged with what looks like a pale gold-like sheen which complements the case and gold colour numerals/hour markers. The hands too are a gold colour but they have rusted a little, although ...

Updated 17th November 2012 at 02:00 by markrlondon (Added text and pictures)

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An Otron what? It's a quartz watch which my father bought in America for $99.99. The design of the watch is strongly 1980s but I'm not sure when my father bought it: It could have been anywhere from the 1980s to the early 1990s.

A quick aside about the pictures above: As you can see, one is with flash and one is without (using ...

Updated 17th November 2012 at 03:12 by markrlondon (Added text and pictures; fixed typos.)

Tags: es101/es103, esa, marquis, otron, today's watch

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Yup, the same watch again. Sorry... I usually do change my watch every day but sometimes, y'know, I like a watch so much I wear it for three days in a row. ;-)

Tags: 6r15-00a0, scvs003, seiko, spirit, today's watch

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Learningtofly posted a wonderful post, with beautiful pictures as ever, about his new JLC Master Perpetual Calendar. This watch uses the Jaeger LeCoultre Calibre 889/440/2 movement whose perpetual calendar complication is based on IWC's perpetual calendar module. Rather than using individual pushers to set each complication separately, this design has to have the complications set and synchronsed by a watchmaker. All alterations are then carried out via the crown (on IWC watches) or an all-complications-day-advance ...

Updated 16th November 2012 at 00:43 by markrlondon (Fixed typos)

Tags: iwc, jlc, louis erard, perpetual calendar, pushers

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