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The perfect summer beater watch and we blaspheme against Sinn

We're still giving away a cool Tiffany PRX, but we also have an affordable option if you don't win

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Vuk Radic
February 28, 2023

Hey friends, welcome to the It’s About Time newsletter about all things watches. We hope it's not too time-consuming for you.

In this issue:

  • An even cheaper PRX competitor is the perfect summer beater

  • A boring company made a boring watch and an interesting company made a slightly more interesting watch

  • The 80’s suck, but Breitling doesn’t

  • A quick video on perhaps the most interesting man in the world

  • And… invite your friends to win a Tiffany PRX

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes and 28 seconds

We’re starting off with a bang! We’re giving away TWO of this year’s hottest watches:
THE TIFFANY PRX!

This is the PRX Powermatic 80 we’re giving away. Not this one obviously. But one just like it.

That’s right! You’ve read about them, you’ve seen the videos and now you can own your own Tissot PRX with the Powermatic 80 movement and the light blue dial. All you have to do is forward this email to five of your friends and get them to click on the button below to subscribe. Both you and one of your friends will be eligible to win one of the watches
We only have two conditions when entering this giveaway - invite 5 of your friends to subscribe and live somewhere were you can buy the PRX online, so we can do this for you and ship it to your address. That’s it!

👂What’s new

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Come on! We just launch our newsletter with a giveaway of the PRX and Tissot comes out with more models?! It really is the hottest watch of the year.

First, they’re putting out a new color for the PRX Chronograph. It’s gonna be a new silver dial with a vertically brushed surface, without any gold on it and dark blue counters. Looks cool.

But! More importantly, the PRX Powermatic 80 is getting integrated rubber bracelets and will keep the quick-change system. That’s it. That’s the perfect summer watch.

There are no official launch dates other than “soon”, but the Chrono will come out to a touch over $2,100, while the rubber strapped Powermatic 80 will be $770

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There are two ways to get your hands on what seems to be the hottest watch of the year - the Tissot PRX Powermatic 80. You can subscribe to this newsletter and get five of your friends to subscribe as well to enter a giveaway for two of these watches, one for you and one for a friend you got to subscribe. The other way is to go down to you Tissot dealer and fork over more than $700.

Say you want a third option and don’t want to spend as much money. Citizen can help you out. They’re coming out with four new watches in the ME series, with a janky-but-still-mechanical movement. Three of the models will be in stainless steel with dials in dark blue, light blue, and teal. The final red-dial model features a gold PVD finish.

So, you get a PRX-looking watch with only slightly lower quality for less than half the price. The three SS watches retail for €299, and the gold one is €349. Perfect summer beater.

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Sinn is the VW of the watch world. They both produce quality items. They both produce an ungodly amount of uninspired and boring items. They both often have a flash of genius, a model that blows everything else out of the water, but is too expensive, too complex, too finicky or too weird to work.

They both have the exact same fans. They ride and die for their brands. They will talk your ear of about how tough, rugged and reliable they are. They will hold annual festivals for their brands and shout at the top of their lungs how great their watch or car is. And both groups will be ignored by the rest of us.

But since they’re so loud, I have to tell you that Sinn has a new watch. It’s bronze, it looks ok, it’s limited to some number, it’s most likely very rugged and it has a Sellita movement in it. Sinn wants $5,760 for it. Yeah, no.

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While Sinn dives deep into their ruggedness, Blancpain is diving deep into their history. I love what Blancpain is doing - not only are they using their heritage better than pretty much anyone, they’re also going out their and building experiences around their watches.

Blancpain is celebrating their 70th anniversary of their diving Fifty Fathoms and the first watch to celebrate with is the Fifty Fathoms “Tech Gombessa”. It’s huge. 47mm. But still looks amazing. It was designed with French marine biologist and underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta of Gombessa Expeditions, an ocean conservation exercise funded by Blancpain. Ballesta asked for a three hour hand and elapsed time bezel. Now, that’s interesting.

What’s less interesting is the eye watering price of $28,000.

🫳On hand

Our selection of the best reviews we stumble upon

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⚙️Watch Worthy

A look at an off beat, less known watch you might actually like

Circula has been around as a watchmaker since 1955, when Heinz Huber decided to get into making watches after selling watches and jewellery since 1926. But the Circula brand was re-energised by his grandson Cornelius Huber in 2018 and now they have an interesting GMT.

⏲️Wait a minute

A bunch of links that might or might not have something to do with watches. One thing’s for sure - they’re interesting

👀Watch this

One video you have to watch today

The story of John Fairfax is the craziest story you will hear today.

😉Famous faces

Celebrities are just like us 😄 

💵Pre-loved precision

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Want to sell your watch to a community of passionate horologists? Reach out to us and we’ll put your ad up. $15 per listing without photos, $25 with photos. 10 available slots per day, discounts for multiple slots.

We’re starting off with a bang! We’re giving away TWO of this year’s hottest watches:
THE TIFFANY PRX!

This is the PRX Powermatic 80 we’re giving away. Not this one obviously. But one just like it.

That’s right! You’ve read about them, you’ve seen the videos and now you can own your own Tissot PRX with the Powermatic 80 movement and the light blue dial. All you have to do is forward this email to five of your friends and get them to click on the button below to subscribe. Both you and one of your friends will be eligible to win one of the watches
We only have two conditions when entering this giveaway - invite 5 of your friends to subscribe and live somewhere were you can buy the PRX online, so we can do this for you and ship it to your address. That’s it!

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