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Why don’t watches call themselves “self-winding” anymore? It is so much classier than “automatic”. I blame the Swiss… That Andrew Morgan sure has jokes. Can someone explain them to me? Except the parts that refer to sex, that would be uncomfortable. I didn’t understand Dennis Miller either, except the sex jokes. I may just flip… Continue reading News and Views on Watches
I have lots of the same types of watches. I have my rectangular or square 1940’s dress watches. I have more than a few from the 1950’s with dagger indices and dauphine hands. I have elegant three-handers from the 1960’s that are studies in minimalism. I still have a few from the more experimental 1970’s.… Continue reading A Sennight of Pondering Chronographs…
If you pay attention to what I wear (why would you, that would be weird), you might think that I rarely wear quartz watches, that every movement in my watch collection derives from the mind of Adolf Schild and Abraham-Louis Breguet before him. Not quite true. At night and on weekends I am just as… Continue reading Do Quartz Watches Have “Soul”?
Greg: Let me throw one out: what watch did you come close to buying, but did not, and do you think that you have made the right decision? Vario Trench 1918 Vario came to my attention when it released the Empire model several years ago. By the time that I found them that watch was… Continue reading Round Table 19: Now With More Roundness!
From remarks given on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Housing Authority of Charleston: Nostalgia is an odd phenomenon. We now see it as a wistful feeling for times past, perhaps better or simpler times. That was not how it was originally intended. The term was coined in the 17th Century to describe… Continue reading Bold, persistent experimentation…
Watch content is hard. There are a couple of reasons for that which are right on the surface of every watch review. Once you get past the specifications you are in the land of subjectivity: do I like its looks or not? Everything else is a superficial gloss of objectivity and buzz words (clichés). There… Continue reading The 5000 Word Limit
(Apologies to my Escapement Room co-conspirators. This was meant to be a Round Table discussion, but it got long, and it would be unfair to expect others to write such a disquisition on what was supposed to concise.) During the Pandemic (remember that?), with time on my hands, I settled into watching an unhealthy amount… Continue reading A microbrand is voted off the island…
I assisted a younger attorney with her first trial a couple of weeks ago and did something that I usually don’t do. I wore steel cased watches and wrote notes with a steel nib pen. (Yes, I often match even these metals.) I have switched sides again in the world of criminal law as I… Continue reading ennui
Once a year, in preparation for my baseball fantasy draft (this Sunday wish me luck), I have ranked the American watch brands. The criteria for inclusion are a) historical importance, b) cultural importance, c) general popularity, d) scientific innovation, and most importantly, e) how much do I like them. What makes a brand American? Well,… Continue reading The Top 58 American Watch Brands Ranked (Number 8 will Shock You)
In one of the most convoluted myths of the ancient world, Theseus traveled to Crete, slew the Minotaur, and returned the children of Athens to their home. Along the way he seduced and abandoned Ariadne, who gave him valuable assistance. According to Plutarch and others, the Athenians kept and repaired the ship and sailed it… Continue reading The Watch of Theseus
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