Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Off Shore Chrono

I've pretty much always been a dive watch guy. I own a dress watch and a vintage field watch, but almost everyday a dive watch is what I reach for in the morning. This is somewhat intentional as I've learned I'm really hard on my gear and watches fall into that category for me. Dive watches are built for unforgiving environments and so I've defaulted to them. So when I got the opportunity to test out Davosa's Military Vintage Automatic watch it was somewhat outside of my norm, but I jumped at th........

Our grandparents bought their clocks, silverware and watches from jewelry stores (AD's). As competition heated, a lot of companies started importing or taking their manufacturing off shore and found other ways to sell their goods cheaper and through other channels..Timex is a good example as they started selling their watches in department stores and even drug stores(unheard of at that time) at much cheaper prices. This put a lot of pressure on companies like Hamilton who kept their product at ........