With Valentine’s day round the corner, time to impress my significant other. We are back to those times in the year when most of us go hunting for presents. And so, it was online surfing this year to find a suitable gift for Carrie, my wife and partner for more than a decade. Each Valentine’s…
It isn’t everyday that one gets thrilled but yesterday was one such day. After 12 years of service in the army, my son Tony had been promoted to Captain. As his father, I’m always happy when my son shows progress in his career. Not that it was bad mind you. Having joined as 2nd Lieutenant…
My husband Jack usually goes walking in the morning as a part of his daily exercise routine. His 70th birthday is just round the corner in January. Jack is extremely health conscious and doesn’t like to miss his early morning walks. Usually, I accompany him but yesterday I was feeling under the weather and so…
My wife Anne came home the other day eyes shining, all excited and placed a small box in front of me. Go on open it, she said. I did so and found a beautiful dive watch. It was the Ratio Free Diver Helium Safe Men’s watch. As a marine biologist, I spend much of my…
Although deep sea diving is not my idea of adventure, I love the sturdy dive watches that usually form an essential part of diving gear. Dive watches are clear and readable with large markers and water resistant to great depths. Some of the dive watches out there are easily beyond the budget of the average…
You would be amazed at how many watch models out there display the day-of-the-week and date of the month via sub-dials and, you would be even more amazed to find, that in over 90% of the cases, the wearer of the watch can barely see what the date is. In all these watch models, the…
Loud, bold, elegant and classy – that was my first impression of the Armani Exchange Black Dial Leather Strap AX2101 Men’s watch. The brand name ‘Armani’ spells fashion and the watches from this brand are stylish dress watches that are sure to enhance your style quotient. One of the reasons I picked out this watch…
If you have a fetish for something out of the ordinary, the ICE watch is for you. When the ICE watch brand was created in 2007, its creator the Belgian entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Lutgen imagined it as a “change”. And a change it made for the folks looking for watches – the ICE watch brings something…
The Nixon Porter A1058-1113-00 Analog Quartz Men’s Watch proffers a simple design, suggestive of the simple lifestyle that was the norm a few decades ago. The thought came to mind as I searched for a simple, everyday watch with as little complications as possible. It was for my father; his old wristwatch had gone to…
Simple and sleek, the Skagen watches heighten the sense of minimalism. Inspired by the Danish coastline and in fact named after a small fishing town of the same name, Skagen brand was the brainchild of a Danish couple Henrik and Charlotte Jorst. Although everything about the brand hints at Danish minimalism, the watches were never…
All vintage and reminiscent of the nostalgia of 1950’s era, the Tissot Heritage Visodate is an affordable, entry level Swiss-made watch. The first Tissot Visodate was launched in 1953 to celebrate the brand’s centenary. The Tissot Visodate back then had a novel feature – it had a date window that changed to the next date…
The Ratio Free Diving watches are not the usual professional dive watches that you see in the crowded watchmaking industry. True, they are created to take to the waters, but they are particularly designed for folks indulging in the extreme sport of free diving. For those not familiar with free diving, it is diving without…