Oris BC3 Air Racing Silver Lake Watch

Oris BC3 Air Racing Silver Lake Edition Watch

The Oris Air Racing Silver Lake Edition is a limited edition watch and is part of a series of watches produced by Oris to commemorate the watchmaker’s race team’s (Oris Air Racing Team) participation in the Reno Air Race.  The watches are limited to 1,000 pieces.

This special edition watch is part of the Oris BC3 line and comes in a special box with an imprint of a compass and an airplane on it.  The box comes with a certificate of authenticity, an extra rubber strap, and a strap changing tool.

Movado Series 800 dive watch blue 3-hand

Movado Series 800 Dive Watches

I don’t usually write about quartz watches but when I do, they’re about Movado watches (I can’t believe I just wrote that).  Movado watches have a special place in my heart, my first “real” watch was a Movado Museum piece that I bought when I was in college; everyone thought I was some rich kid.  I still own that watch and occasionally wear it.  Today I bring you the Movado Series 800 Dive watches.

The Movado Series 800 watches have been around for a while now with a few different varieties, they seem to be quite popular and pretty reasonably priced.  I personally prefer the look of their museum watches but I guess Movado can’t sell as many watches when they all have the same black dial and two hands.

Girard-Perregaux Opera Three Watch – Plays Music by Tchaikovsky and Mozart

Girard-Perregaux-Haute-Horlogerie-Opera-Three-watchNot to be outdone by Breguet’s Reveil musical watch, Girard-Perregaux has released their music playing watch.  Although the Girard-Perregaux Opera Three watch was released way back in 2002, so in other words, Breguet is the one playing catch up.

The Opera Three watch plays either Tchaikovsky or Mozart at the top of every hour; this is done by a small music box which is placed inside the mechanical movement.  The music box has a keyboard with 20 blades that are played by a drum with 150 hand-mounted plates.

Orient-60th-Anniversary-Watch-SDT00001S

Orient 60th Anniversary Watch Review

The Orient Watch Company is one of Japan’s largest mechanical watch producers and has been in the business since July 1950. But the company’s roots go back even further when Shogoro Yoshida sold wholesale watches in 1901. Having been in the watch industry for over 60 years, the Orient Watch Company has also had a few of its own innovations. Innovations such as developing the power-reserve indicator which allows the user to see how much “power” is left in a mechanical watch. Orient is also known for having their own in-house movement on the low-end watches in the hundred dollar price range. Having in-house movement is fairly rare in the entry-level watches.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the company, Orient released two limited edition watches, the SDT00001S (gold case) and SDT00002W (silver case), only 1,500 pieces were produced in each color and they’re both now sold out.  We got our hands on the gold watch and what a watch it is!