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January 26, 2012
A Brief History of Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time has put the Greenwich observatory on the South bank of the river Thames in London at the centre of timekeeping for over 150 years. What began as a means for British sailors to determine their location escalated until it defined local time all across the [...]
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October 19, 2011
All new watches, purchased from an official dealer such as Find Watches, will come with a guarantee of at least two years. The terms of the guarantee vary between the different manufacturers so check the details when you receive your new watch. The things that are typical to all watch manufacturers are that the workings [...]
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October 3, 2011
Recently bought in by one of our customers who dated it at around 30 years old. It has a 17 jewels mechanical movement that had been running smoothly since its purchase in the 1970’s. As the watch had started to loose time we arranged to have the watch fully serviced by Seiko’s in house repair [...]
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September 28, 2011
Seiko provided the timing at the recent IAAF athletics world championships in Korea. Fierce competition saw world records broken and dreams realised for some of the best athletes in the world. The difference between winning and losing is frequently less than a second, the gaps between competitors can be almost imperceptible and that is why [...]
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August 24, 2011
On Saturday the 27th August at 9.15pm Party Time by Sekonda watches are sponsoring a new one off music special; A Night With Will Young. The show is hosted by Loose Women’s Kate Thornton and will be a feast of Will’s music including some of his biggest hits and tracks from his new album ‘Echoes’, [...]
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June 30, 2011
At the Catalunya Moto GP race, Sunday 5th June 2011 5.255 seconds separated 1st and 4th place. The gap between third, the last podium place, and fourth was less than a second. With divisions this small the human eye cannot be relied upon to produce consistently accurate results, blink and you miss it. This is [...]
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April 9, 2011
‘The Nation’s Favourite Abba song’ is being aired again today on ITV1 at 4.30pm. The fun show is sponsored by Sekonda Party Time watches. The programme looks through Abba’s back catalogue of hits and discusses the stories behind them. Abba had 29 singles in the UK chart, with 9 of them getting to the number [...]
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March 16, 2011
This weekend Sekonda Party Time watches are sponsoring a one off event TV show called “Duran Duran: For One Night Only”. This show is to be aired on Sunday 20th March at 8.30 pm on ITV1.
Duran Duran are one of the UK’s most iconic pop bands, they have been part of the musical scenery [...]
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March 2, 2011
Mothers’ Day is not too far away, this year it falls on Sunday the 3rd of April. We always receive lots of enquiries from people looking for advice about what would be a great mothers’ day present. Here at Find Watches we have a number of different brands that we think are perfect for [...]
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February 2, 2011
2010 was a big year for the F1 Red Bull racing team partnered with Casio Edifice. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull protégée since age 12, won the World Championship for the team, giving Red Bull it’s first win in only their 6th year of competition. The Red Bull team is one of the youngest [...]
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