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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”?
Lume on watches can be a contentious topic. Some folks really value it, while others fall into ambivalence. At the end of the day, lume is entirely a personal preference for watches. My preference is to have good lume (or a backlight) on my watch. While watches are glorified jewelry, I find the value of… Continue reading Does Lume Matter On A Watch?
Chris: New Year, let’s get something going. What was your most worn watch of 2024. What watch would you like to wear more of in 2025, and why? Ryan: I did the math in 2023. I'm not going to bother doing it again for 2024. We tend to have recency bias with things like this,… Continue reading Round Table No. 17 – reflections and projections…
I have long realized that I own too many watches. A result of this condition is that none of my watches, my fragile vintage pieces, and my more robust modern ones, get enough wear. I sometimes don’t wear a watch for six months or more. That’s a bit silly, to me at least. So, what… Continue reading A Solipsistic Microbrand Holiday Shopping Guide
Sherwin: What watch-related trend, brand, and/or hype that you hate? And if you were forced to, how would you defend it?" Chris: I’m not sure this is something I could deliver. I find most watch content contrived, and appreciate the irony considering that I do bother to talk shop. I have nothing but disdain for… Continue reading Round Table No. 15 – defending the indefensible, and Chris starts an argument in an empty room…
I’ve been silent haven’t I? In truth, I’ve been busy, and I have had nothing really interesting to say. I’m ok. A little tired. I started a new job recently, and I’ve inherited a little bit of a mess, but I’m good at cleaning up messes. Except my own… but that’s life. There is not… Continue reading All quiet on The Western Front
This year I am batting .181, which makes me the Dal Maxvill of online bidding watch idiots. I have only won 18% of the online auctions where I have participated. I lost one this weekend that was deeply frustrating to me and Chris because we discussed that I had found the perfect 1940’s military watch,… Continue reading Born to lose
It’s been a little while since my last proper update, and that was me banging on about homages. I think before that I was reporting my findings on Bremont. Twas a busy May it seems. June seems to have flown by, partly because Greg has been tormenting me over on WatchCrunch with the annual One… Continue reading The things that matter (Matterhorn Divemaster 300 review)
Everyone else is. Or was. I understand… it was a bit of a shock when they seemingly rebranded, relaunched, and reset, but there was always something (to me) under the surface that was not quite clicking. Be it before, during, or after, I have always found Bremont to be a little bit of an oddball.… Continue reading I suppose we have to talk about Bremont…
Greg: Are there any burning issues that need to be addressed? Here is my late night thought: Not all “vintage inspired” pieces are the same. What makes one work and one not? I am thinking of a Timex/Todd Snyder collab up on our favorite forum. It looks like any number of mid-century watches, but this… Continue reading Duologue No. 1: Reimagining Vintage for Modern Tastes
The Escapement Room 