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What Watches Does Justin Bieber Wear?

June 10, 2010
By Brooks
What Watches Does Justin Bieber Wear?

Q: What Watches Does Justin Bieber Wear? What kind of watches do Justin Bieber and Usher wear in lots of thier pictures? Question Description: I’m a big Usher and Justin Bieber fan and I was looking at some of thier pics and I noticed they both wear these watches (pic below) and I was wondering...
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About ETA 7750 You Wanna Know

April 26, 2010
By Brooks
About ETA 7750 You Wanna Know

How to use Dial and hands The normal ETA 7750 watch A chronograph consists of a movement with traditional watch functions added stop watch functions. Caliber 7750 also indicates the date and day of week. To the above you see the nomal watch functions, hour and minutehand, small secondhand at 9 o’clock as date and day of week. The ETA...
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What Does ‘Maison Fondee’ Mean on the Back of Omega Watches?

April 21, 2010
By Brooks
What Does ‘Maison Fondee’  Mean on the Back of Omega Watches?

On the back of certain Omega Watches limited edition people often can see the words ‘MAISON FONDEE’, and probably engraved with a number 1848 next or under them, Maison Fondee en 1848 above the Omega logo and brand. Many people don’t get it, what does ‘Maison Fondee’ mean? Well, after checked on Google, I...
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What Watch Does James Bond Wear in 007 Movies?

April 16, 2010
By Brooks
What Watch Does James Bond Wear in 007 Movies?

What watch does James Bond wear? For many people, Omega Seamaster Professional 300m watches are the most familiar James Bond watches, truely, in total twenty-two Bond’s movies by now, Omega Seamaster Professional 300m series have shown up in five of them. And no matter the special functions these watches got or the beauty of...
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What Does Jewels Mean in Watches?

April 12, 2010
By Brooks

Most of top grade watches have jewels(Rubies, mostly) inlayed in their movements, 17 jewels, 21 jewels or 25 jewels, such words often could be seen in watches’ certifications, but what does these jewels mean in whatches anyway? Well, besides jewels themselves’ beauty and rarity, jewels in watches movement has real functional use: reduce friction. Comparing...
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What is A Moon Phase Watch and How Does It Work?

March 22, 2010
By Brooks
What is A Moon Phase Watch and How Does It Work?

What is a moon phase watch? Moon phase watch is the watch equipped a special system “moon phase”(yep, that’s how people call it) to display moon stages tracks through monthly cycle. Moon phase, also known as lunar phase, it “refers to the appearance of the illuminjated portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually...
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ETA Movement List

March 16, 2010
By Brooks
ETA Movement List

As the biggest finished and semi-finished watch movements producer in the world, ETA Movement plays a very important role in Swiss watch industry. Especially after its successive consolidation with other three Swiss movement companies Lemania, Valjoux, and Peseux, ETA movement got the irreplaceable position in Swiss even worldwide watch industry. Besides providing watch movements to...
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Most Expensive On-sale Watches In the World

February 24, 2010
By Brooks
Most Expensive On-sale Watches In the World

There are many luxurious watches were made every year, price from hundreds to thousands dollars, even hundrads of thousands. Expensive, aren’t they? And of course we have heard lots of legends about the most expensive watch in the world, but besides those antique watches, which, most of us just heard but never saw, what...
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Why Quartz Watch Keep Time More Accurately than Mechanical Watch?

February 7, 2010
By Brooks

Question: Why quartz watch keep time more accurately than mechanical watch? Question Description: The reason quartz watch can keep time more accurately than mechanical watch. That’s because the oscillator of a quartz watch, the little piece of quartz, is a much steadier oscillator than the balance wheel of a mechanical watch. It’s a basic rule of...
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What Is A Tachymeter on My Watch and How to Use It?

February 7, 2010
By Brooks

Question: What is a tachymeter on my watch and how to use it? Question description: Tachmeter’s function and the way to use it. Answer:A Tachymeter helps you estimate the speed you are going. It uses the basic formula that speed = Distance/time Here is how to use it: To use tachymeter, simply start the chronograph or stopwatch when the...
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