The Independents
How an Automatic Watch Works: One Spring, Slowe...
A fully wound automatic watch is holding about forty-two hours of running energy in a coiled strip of alloy, and if nothing stood in its way, that strip would spend...
How an Automatic Watch Works: One Spring, Slowe...
A fully wound automatic watch is holding about forty-two hours of running energy in a coiled strip of alloy, and if nothing stood in its way, that strip would spend...
Skate shops already won the war watch dealers a...
Nike spent the late 1990s failing to sell skateboard shoes. It had the factories, the athletes, and more money than every skateboard company on earth combined, and none of it...
Skate shops already won the war watch dealers a...
Nike spent the late 1990s failing to sell skateboard shoes. It had the factories, the athletes, and more money than every skateboard company on earth combined, and none of it...
Nomos is the most underpriced manufacture in wa...
Almost nobody who makes watches makes the escapement inside them. That includes brands charging five figures. The balance wheel, hairspring, pallet and escape wheel, the parts that actually keep time,...
Nomos is the most underpriced manufacture in wa...
Almost nobody who makes watches makes the escapement inside them. That includes brands charging five figures. The balance wheel, hairspring, pallet and escape wheel, the parts that actually keep time,...
The Doxa Nobody Photographs
In 1967, Doxa did two things nobody else had: it put a high-visibility orange dial on a dive watch, and it patented a bezel that calculates a no-decompression ascent. All...
The Doxa Nobody Photographs
In 1967, Doxa did two things nobody else had: it put a high-visibility orange dial on a dive watch, and it patented a bezel that calculates a no-decompression ascent. All...
What Is Watch Lume? Why the Dead Kind Sells
I sell watches with the best lume ever made — and it's the least valuable thing about them. A short history of lume, and why the dead kind sells for...
What Is Watch Lume? Why the Dead Kind Sells
I sell watches with the best lume ever made — and it's the least valuable thing about them. A short history of lume, and why the dead kind sells for...
A Plastic Watch Saved The Watch Industry
On 1 March 1983, a Swiss conglomerate launched a plastic watch with twelve faces, fifty-one parts, and a case sealed so tightly it could never be opened for repair. It...
A Plastic Watch Saved The Watch Industry
On 1 March 1983, a Swiss conglomerate launched a plastic watch with twelve faces, fifty-one parts, and a case sealed so tightly it could never be opened for repair. It...