THE ARAB GATSBY

A watch so comfortable you will forget that it's on your wrist, the Seiko Speed Runner SBEF005.

I’ve known about this collaboration since its inception, and it’s been tough keeping it a secret. I’ve talked about Kuoe in my past blog post , and the whole experience of purchasing my Kuoe Old Smith 90-002 from their Kyoto Boutique. It was truly an experience that I enjoyed, but I wasn’t the only one to enjoy that experience. My dear friend Salem Al-Mutawa, aka Tokei Ronin, who I have mentioned numerous times on here about being my watch addict enabler, felt the same way w

I previously owned the Seiko 5 SNXS79, and had it for a couple of years. It was beautiful no nonsense watch that was extremely reasonably priced. Beautiful sunburst silver dial, with a day date function, sitting at 37mm. Then I saw the announcement of the replacement, and I kind of felt like Andy from Toy Story when he drops Woody, and put mine up for sale because I wanted the new one. Don’t get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with my SNXS but the new one was just beautiful

After the birth of my son, I knew I needed to celebrate and commemorate this monumental occasion. I needed to purchase I watch, that maybe one day I would hand down to my son when the time is right. I had booked a ticket to Japan before my son was born, and the thought then hit me. I’m go purchase a watch from the Grand Seiko Flagship store located at the Wako Building in Ginza Tokyo. Now came the difficult choice, I need to choose which Grand Seiko I was going to buy to cele

While I was walking around in Osaka right after a delicious pizza from Critters Pizza, in an area near Americamurra, I stumbled upon this...

For a while now I’ve seen pictures of beautiful vintage inspired watches with the unwavering quality of the Japanese. Kuoe Kyoto started in 2010 by Kenji Uchimura, while studying in the United Kingdom, he entered an antique shop and fell in love with watches that were on display, a line of watches from the 1940 to the 1970s. With the inspiration of these watches Kuoe Kyoto was started. The inspiration is extremely evident when you look at their watches, but also paying homa