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Highly Regarded Croton Time

Croton is a popular and esteemed Swiss watchmaker with a rich horological heritage dating back to 1878. For over 134 years, the company has been producing innovative timepieces, impressive in design and craftsmanship, as well as value-priced and affordable. The brand is named after the Italian region Croton, an area renowned for its physical beauty and strength. With precision Swiss craftsmanship and movements along with fashionable Italian-inspired designs distinguishing them from other brands, Croton gained worldwide popularity by the mid-1900s.   The brand is most famous for its Aquamatic timepiece, first introduced in the 1940s and one of the earliest…

An Indispensable Time-Keeping Ally

Victorinox Swiss Army wristwatches are among the most popular watch brands for men and women today. The brand’s no-frills military inspired designs, premium -grade stainless steel construction, quality Swiss craftsmanship, not to mention affordability have made them leaders in watch industry since their inception in 1989. Swiss Army’s origins started with surgical grade knives in 1884, when the brand was founded by Karl Eisener, who opened a cutlery shop in Ibach-Schwyz, Switzerland. By 1891, Eisener was commissioned by the Swiss Army to produce pocket knives for soldiers. Six years later, the “Swiss Officer’s Knife” and “Sport Knife” were legally registered to…

A Stuhrling Opportunity!

In today’s age of accessible men’s and women’s luxury wristwatches, the brand Stuhrling Original stands out from the rest. Founded in 1999, the Stuhrling Original features a multi-generational heritage of fine watchmaking dating back to the 1860s, when master watchmaker Max Stuhrling produced complicated timepieces for the legendary brands such as Audemars. Stuhrling, died before his 50th birthday, yet he passed his expert watchmaking skills on to his son Max Jr., who started his watch making apprenticeship at the ripe age of eleven. It greatly disturbed Max Senior that his timepiece creations were not affordable to a man of his…

Citizens Of Time

Citizen  is one of the largest and most popular watchmakers in the world today. The company’s timekeeping origins date back to 1924 in Tokyo, Japan with the introduction of a pocket watch by the Shokosha Watch Research Institute. The pocket watch was given the name Citizen by the city’s mayor with hopes that a luxury item of this quality would become available to ordinary citizens and sold throughout the world by the Institute. The Tokyo mayor’s statement would later prove to become a prophecy as the Institute changed their name to Citizen and introduced many revolutionary timepieces in the past…

The Evolution of Time…

Did you ever wonder what wristwatches looked like when they were first introduced in the early  20th Century or how their size has grown in  volume in the past couple of decades?  Online retailer WorldofWatches.com explores this horological phenomenon with their Evolution of Time watch history review. Timepieces from the early 1900’s to today are featured in this comprehensive watch guide. Popular models from the leading watchmakers  in the world: Cartier, Rolex, Breitling, Hamilton, Bulova, Lucien Piccard, Timex, Omega, Officine Panerai , Citizen, TAG Heuer, Piaget, IWC, Longines, Invicta and Swiss Legend are included. It’s interesting to note that the Cartier…