Saturday, March 12, 2011

Safety razor

Few days ago I received a new Gillette Fusion from a Gillette Spain marketing campaign through Facebook.
Two months ago I started to shave using double edge razors (aka safety razors), now I will be able to compare the old and newest shaving styles.
From the cost point of view the classic shaving is the clear winner but we will see what happens from the shaving point of view.


It won't be a good comparison, because I will compare one of the most advanced modern razors, the Gillette Fusion, with a low cost Chinese safety razor, the Weishi 9306. To use a known safety razor such as Merkur, Edwin Jagger, Gillette, etc. should be a better option, but the Weishi is my only safety razor, so I will use it.
The blades used on the safety razor will be the Gillette 7 o'clock sharp edge (yellow box). A well known blades, made in St. Petersburg (Russia)

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Digital steel watches

Nowadays to find steel cased digital watches is quite difficult. Apart of some high end Casio watches and the expensive Seikos we have to look for vintage digital watches. Here you are 3 of my metal cased watches. The Riquartz ones are stainless steel while the Thermidor is chrome plated metal.


The three watches are in a nice NOS condition. The big Riquartz has the price tag and they all have the protection plastic on their screw down case backs.