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You have decided to dip your toe into vintage watch collecting. Like a certain potato chip (crisp for those of you that eat beans on toast), you can never have just one. There are certain categories that you should/must have in your collection. These are the Jungian archetypes of vintage watches that will bring pleasure… Continue reading The Five Vintage Watches That You Must Own
I suppose we’ve all seen the meme… I’ve even seen some videos on it - I mean it is just a meme, so take it with a pinch of salt. There are others versions of it that basically have Seiko and the end as well, but hey, we cannot always be right 😉 (emojis, really?… Continue reading Critical state watch collecting – what stage are you in?
I immersed myself in some Red and Blue America activities this week. Just a warning for all of our friends worldwide, the United States is going to talk about itself a lot in the next year. It will be a cacophony of opinions about “American Exceptionalism,” “America’s Original Sin,” and everywhere in between. Brace yourself… Continue reading Dispatches from Real America…
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
A few months back, my good buddy Tim Johnson gave me his Seiko Kinetic watch. The Kinetic line was Seiko's attempt at a Quartz watch that wouldn't need a battery change every few years. However, it entered the market at a weird time, and has all of the issues of a mechanical watch combined with… Continue reading The Seiko Kinetic Movement – How it works, and why does it exist?
As parents, we frequently find ourselves telling our kids "No" A LOT and a good chunk of those "No's" are delivered with no real reason behind it besides, "I said No". We can't articulate why the answer is no, we just know it is. For me, some watch purchase decisions are in this category. On… Continue reading That Nagging Feeling
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…
(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…
Most watch media is trying to push you to buy something. It could be a "review" that is thinly veiled advertising, or someone who is banking on you unknowingly buying via their affiliate link. It grinds my gears that it's not more transparent, but I think it exposes a deeper issue. Do you really need the… Continue reading No, you do not need the new thing.
Greg: The topic is this: we are always told to dress for the job that we want. What is the watch equivalent to that proposition? There is always a bit of projection and dress-up with watches, but what watch would project what we wanted? Chris: Does this one step into that “fetishisation” category? The number… Continue reading Dress for Success, Round Table No. 16
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