Olma manual wind vintage watch

Olma manual wind vintage watch

One of our favorite vintage watch auctions featured a double and a good friend and I decided to share the bid and watches. The two were both manual wind Olma watches, and looked like they were in good condition. My first vintage Swiss watch was an Olma not counting my Swatch collection that has 25-year [...]

Chocolate review: Meiji The Chocolate Vivid Milk

Chocolate review: Meiji The Chocolate Vivid Milk

The Clairvoyant spotted some chocolate bars at the Japanese products section of the supermarket. We don't usually get milk chocolate but we were curious to taste this new bar from Meiji. It is marketed as a dark milk chocolate with 54% cacao content (its there in the box).The packaging design on this [...]

Chocolate review: Sander Chocolate Venezolano Sal Marina

Chocolate review: Sander Chocolate Venezolano Sal Marina

The recent trip by the Clairvoyant brought us some excellent chocolates from Venezuela. These were from a lawyer-friend from their office in Venezuela, who usually gifts us with chocolates whenever they meet for their firm's annual meeting."Sal marina" translates directly into "sea salt"Details on the [...]

Shachihoko Japanese Restaurant, Circle Mall, Marikina

Shachihoko Japanese Restaurant, Circle Mall, Marikina

We finally got to go to Marikina again to try out one of the many restaurants in the city. There are actually several areas where you can have good meals in the city. These include Lilac Street, the streets near and around City Hall, Gil Fernando Avenue, and the Circle Mall in SSS Village.I usually [...]

Enicar ultrasonic manual wind vintage watch

Enicar ultrasonic manual wind vintage watch

I consider myself lucky to have acquired this watch through an auction. Enicar watches in good condition are hard to come by. I saw one being auctioned in another Fb page that was badly corroded despite the gold plating. This one looks great and functions very well.The watch currently is strapless as [...]

Preferred travel watch

Preferred travel watch

My good old Seiko Kinetic Titanium Auto Relay is still my preferred travel watch. I take this along with me whenever I am traveling to certain places for the first time. It is reliable and the kind of watch that few if any people will pay attention to ("hindi pansinin") whenever I am going around.That's [...]

Il Ristorante di Antonio, Antipolo City

Il Ristorante di Antonio, Antipolo City

We've always promoted the city that we call our home - Antipolo. There are lots of places to go to around the city and these include restaurants like those along Sumulong Highway as well as those you will find only in Antipolo like Vieux Chalet, Marison's and Abuela's. For this post, I would like to [...]

Julia's Pasta

Julia's Pasta

I discovered this "fast food" option while going around Amsterdam Central Station. A good friend actually mentioned this but I hadn't come across it while in Enschede or Arnhem. Julia's Pasta is an excellent option for people on the go who don't want the hassle of going to a restaurant to get a healthy [...]

Watch luminosity

Watch luminosity

I was checking which of my watches had lumes and which actually worked when lights were off. The older, vintage watches mostly had none and if they had, it appeared to be corroded or weathered. Anyhow, following are some photos I took of the watches that 'performed' well after I turned the lights off.Hamilton [...]

On watch movements

On watch movements

I am quite aware of the importance of the movement of the watches I collect. I basically have Japanese and Swiss watches whose movements I have done some research on. A good resource for movements is in the following link: http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswkThe [...]