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Maintain a wood watch

How to maintain a wood watch and keep it in goo...

Now that you have a wood watch, you may be wondering how you can best take care of it so that it continues to look good and work well.  Believe...

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How to maintain a wood watch and keep it in good working order for ...

Now that you have a wood watch, you may be wondering how you can best take care of it so that it continues to look good and work well.  Believe it or not, wood watches are relatively easy to maintain. 

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Wood Watches and Other Perfect Gifts for Valentine’s Day

Wood Watches and Other Perfect Gifts for Valent...

The next time you think there are no new gifts ideas for Valentine’s Day, think again.  If you’ve done the flowers and the chocolates once too often, maybe it’s time...

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Wood Watches and Other Perfect Gifts for Valentine’s Day

The next time you think there are no new gifts ideas for Valentine’s Day, think again.  If you’ve done the flowers and the chocolates once too often, maybe it’s time to be thinking about an eco-friendly gift and has natural beauty.

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How To Buy Your First Wood Watch – Helpful Tips

How To Buy Your First Wood Watch – Helpful Tips

There are lots of companies that sell wood watches these days.  That’s no surprise because wood watches are the hottest trend for wrist watches in a long time.  Before wood...

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How To Buy Your First Wood Watch – Helpful Tips

There are lots of companies that sell wood watches these days.  That’s no surprise because wood watches are the hottest trend for wrist watches in a long time.  Before wood watches, you had three choices for watch bands -- metal, leather, or some form of sweaty rubber made from petroleum by-products (yuck!) 

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Perfect Holiday Gifts For Men Include Wood Watches

Perfect Holiday Gifts For Men Include Wood Watches

Let’s face it, men love wood accessories. This year, forget the stuff he never wears or the cheap-smelling, musk colognes. Give the man in your life something innovative, made from...

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Perfect Holiday Gifts For Men Include Wood Watches

Let’s face it, men love wood accessories. This year, forget the stuff he never wears or the cheap-smelling, musk colognes. Give the man in your life something innovative, made from wood.

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Choose The Best Wood Watch

Tips To Choose The Best Wood Watch

Choosing a wood watch can be challenging. But if you use these guidelines, you will definitely enjoy your wood watch for many years to come. There are lots of companies...

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Tips To Choose The Best Wood Watch

Choosing a wood watch can be challenging. But if you use these guidelines, you will definitely enjoy your wood watch for many years to come. There are lots of companies selling wood watches these days. But truth be told, not all Wood Watches are worth the lumber used to make them. Here are some helpful tips to choosing the best wood watch.

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Choose The Best Wood Watch

Wood watch buying 101

Choose a wood watch with a style suited to your taste. Do not compromise and get something that does not look right for you. The best companies, like Martin & MacArthur or Tense,...

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Wood watch buying 101

Choose a wood watch with a style suited to your taste. Do not compromise and get something that does not look right for you. The best companies, like Martin & MacArthur or Tense, offer hundreds of varieties, not just a few.

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The History of Hawaiian Koa Wood: A True Story

The History of Hawaiian Koa Wood: A True Story

Koa Wood is legendary in Hawaii. Not only is this amazing wood native to Hawaii but it is known for the deep rich colors and varied grain pattern. Koa has...

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The History of Hawaiian Koa Wood: A True Story

Koa Wood is legendary in Hawaii. Not only is this amazing wood native to Hawaii but it is known for the deep rich colors and varied grain pattern. Koa has honored heritage in Hawaii and is highly revered and sacred.

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Perfect gifts for men : Wood, Watches and Koa Rings

Perfect gifts for men : Wood, Watches and Koa R...

A wood watch will definitely make a man happy. The finest Wood Watches are made from solid wood with beautiful faces. The craftsmen of Martin & MacArthur have innovative wood watches made with Koa,...

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Perfect gifts for men : Wood, Watches and Koa Rings

A wood watch will definitely make a man happy. The finest Wood Watches are made from solid wood with beautiful faces. The craftsmen of Martin & MacArthur have innovative wood watches made with Koa, the beautiful iridescent wood that grows only in Hawaii. They have Koa watches with mother of pearl faces or moon phase dials. But, the best wood watch is the automatic, self-winding watch with a skeleton, see through, 21-jewel movement. Sapphire crystal face, of course, the finest in the world.

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Koa wood watches

Koa Makes the Perfect Gift for Mother’s Day

Martin & MacArthur has been making fine Koa furniture in Hawaii for over 50 years. Today, the company creates personal accessories from Koa wood, as well. Martin & MacArthur creates...

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Koa Makes the Perfect Gift for Mother’s Day

Martin & MacArthur has been making fine Koa furniture in Hawaii for over 50 years. Today, the company creates personal accessories from Koa wood, as well. Martin & MacArthur creates the only solid Koa wood watches. The beautiful grain pattern and color of Koa shows off wonderfully in these wood watches. Each watch is made with a premium quartz movement to ensure timekeeping accuracy. The links and casing are hand-carved using the Company’s private stock of dark, rich Koa wood from the Big Island.

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Care for Your Wood Watch

How to Care for Your Wood Watch

Wood watches have never been more popular.  Today, fashionable men and women from Maine to Maui are wearing wood watches.  There are lots of reputable companies selling wood watches like...

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How to Care for Your Wood Watch

Wood watches have never been more popular.  Today, fashionable men and women from Maine to Maui are wearing wood watches.  There are lots of reputable companies selling wood watches like Martin & MacArthur and Tense, so be sure go don’t get a cheap timepiece from a company with just a few styles that look like they belong at Toys-R-Us.

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Koa for Future Generations of Hawaii

Koa for Future Generations of Hawaii

The popularity of koa wood has never been greater. This beautiful wood is endemic to Hawaii and known for its deep rich colors and varied grain pattern. Koa has a...

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Koa for Future Generations of Hawaii

The popularity of koa wood has never been greater. This beautiful wood is endemic to Hawaii and known for its deep rich colors and varied grain pattern. Koa has a rich heritage in Hawaii, and is still most highly revered, and a sacred wood.

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Hawaii Koa Wood – From Weapons to Watches

Hawaii Koa Wood – From Weapons to Watches

For anyone who has been to Hawaii, you know that Koa wood is highly revered as the wood of the monarchs and the ali’i. Koa wood grows only in Hawaii....

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Hawaii Koa Wood – From Weapons to Watches

For anyone who has been to Hawaii, you know that Koa wood is highly revered as the wood of the monarchs and the ali’i. Koa wood grows only in Hawaii. It was the wood used by the warriors of King Kamehameha, the Great, to create canoes and weapons. In later years, Hawaiian used Koa for many daily functions, carving long tree trunks in Koa surfboards and even creating bowls, called umeke, for serving food. Of course, some of the finest stringed instruments like guitars and ukulele are made by master craftsmen with Koa wood.

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Great Gifts For Dad And Gifts For Men

Great Gifts For Dad And Gifts For Men

Dad always loves things made of wood. But how many wooden decoy ducks can a guy actually use? This Christmas, give the man in your life an innovative gift made...

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Great Gifts For Dad And Gifts For Men

Dad always loves things made of wood. But how many wooden decoy ducks can a guy actually use? This Christmas, give the man in your life an innovative gift made from wood. The most popular gift this season is a wood watch. The best wood watches are made with solid wood links, not veneers on metal. The newest wood watches self-winding,

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New Wood Watch Styles in Moon Phase and Mother of Pearl

Innovative New Wood Watch Styles in Moon Phase ...

For the style-conscious, having a wood watch is no longer good enough. There are lots of cheap looking wood watches that look like Playskool toy watches we buy for our...

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Innovative New Wood Watch Styles in Moon Phase and Mother of Pearl

For the style-conscious, having a wood watch is no longer good enough. There are lots of cheap looking wood watches that look like Playskool toy watches we buy for our kids. Or, some wood watches made by new companies look like something Fred Flintstone would wear bowling.

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Koa Makes the Perfect Gift

Koa Makes the Perfect Gift

Hand-crafted gifts made with wood are always appreciated more than stuff made in offshore factories using cheap plastic and steel. But, that does not mean you have to sacrifice great...

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Koa Makes the Perfect Gift

Hand-crafted gifts made with wood are always appreciated more than stuff made in offshore factories using cheap plastic and steel. But, that does not mean you have to sacrifice great style and innovation.

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Koa Sets the Trend in Hawaiian Jewelry

Koa Sets the Trend in Hawaiian Jewelry

Forget the puka shells or the old fashioned wave pendants that your grandmother bought in Hawaii. Today, the hottest trend inHawaiian jewelry in wood – KOA wood, to be exact. Koa...

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Koa Sets the Trend in Hawaiian Jewelry

Forget the puka shells or the old fashioned wave pendants that your grandmother bought in Hawaii. Today, the hottest trend inHawaiian jewelry in wood – KOA wood, to be exact. Koa grows only in Hawaii and has beautiful swirling grain patterns unseen in any other wood.

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Wood Watches Keep Innovating

Wood Watches Keep Innovating – Don’t Get Left B...

Wood watches are all the rage. For the past three years, companies like Martin & MacArthur and Tense have led the way in creating great new styles of wood watches. These two companies...

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Wood Watches Keep Innovating – Don’t Get Left Behind

Wood watches are all the rage. For the past three years, companies like Martin & MacArthur and Tense have led the way in creating great new styles of wood watches. These two companies are the leaders in innovative new designs in wood watches.

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Guide to Buying a Wood Watch

How to Choose a Wood Watch: A Complete Buying G...

The biggest trend in wrist watches is the wood watch. There are several companies that now offer wood watches online and in retail stores. Many of them look cool, but...

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How to Choose a Wood Watch: A Complete Buying Guide

The biggest trend in wrist watches is the wood watch. There are several companies that now offer wood watches online and in retail stores. Many of them look cool, but buyer beware! There are lots of imitators that do not sell a reliable time piece worth the investment. Here’s what you need to keep in mind when buying a wooden watch.

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New Koa Furniture Collection Introduced

New Koa Furniture Collection Introduced

Martin & MacArthur, the premier Koa furniture maker of Hawaii, recently introduced a new collection of fine Koa furniture, inspired by the grand dame of Hawaiian resorts, the Moana Surfrider.

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New Koa Furniture Collection Introduced

Martin & MacArthur, the premier Koa furniture maker of Hawaii, recently introduced a new collection of fine Koa furniture, inspired by the grand dame of Hawaiian resorts, the Moana Surfrider.

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Self-Winding Koa Watch Sets the New Standard

Automatic, Self-Winding Koa Watch Sets the New ...

The biggest development in precision timepieces comes from the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu Hawaii.  Local Hawaii company Martin & MacArthur is introducing the first-ever automatic watch made with individually carved Koa links.

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Automatic, Self-Winding Koa Watch Sets the New Standard

The biggest development in precision timepieces comes from the middle of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu Hawaii.  Local Hawaii company Martin & MacArthur is introducing the first-ever automatic watch made with individually carved Koa links.

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