Orient Place - The Place for Orient Watch Collectors and Fans

In 1961, Orient took its first step into the world of automatic watches with the release of the Super Auto Perfect Self-Winding. This hist...

Pocket watches emerged in the early 16th century, when portable timekeeping was first made possible by compact spring-driven mechanisms. Ini...

Orient's fascination with "interesting" (or strange / complicated, as you prefer) dials has previously been discussed on th...

As longtime readers of Orient Place know, I’ve been compiling stats about this blog’s activity for years  –  often sharing some fun insig...

So here we are again – another lap around the sun, and Orient Place blog turns seven. As always, it’s time to take a moment to look back a...