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  • My Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Dive Watch has no equal.

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    It was the third watch I acquired for my collection, and… I didn’t like it. This was sort-of a theme in my early watch collecting days, when I lived in a remote place, so I would order watches based on reviews and YouTube videos, etc. In the case of the Citizen BN0150-28E, this was a…

  • How the Redwood Kilroy Ghost Stealth became my exit watch.

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    In my experience, the elusive exit watch requires two ingredients: 1) the right watch, and 2) the right circumstances. I know it’s considered ill-advised to definitively announce that a particular watch you’ve purchased is your exit watch – the watch that signals the completion of your watch collecting hobby. But I know myself (also considered…

  • Walmart watches: a tale of sensory overload

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    I recently made a trip by plane, out of one of the Yukon’s “communities” (in quotes due to ‘special communities-person status’ while visiting the ‘big city’), to Whitehorse – and inevitably, to Walmart. Walmart’s always been a problem. Back in my early twenties, I protested in front of one almost to the point of being…