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I lurked for a few years before I ever made my first comment on a watch forum. I wasn’t sure that, even anonymously, I wanted to be outed as a watch nerd. Now I comment all of the time and even include enough biographical information that you could find me and punch me in the… Continue reading The mask slips
This weekend was finally time to celebrate getting to the end of two crazy weeks at work. It's always the case that when extra shifts need covering I'll generally be eager to volunteer, thinking "Ooo... imagine the watches I could buy with the extra cash!" but no watch has been worth the multiple 12 hour… Continue reading Dear diary: What internet dating and sexy lingerie taught me about watch collecting.
The concept of the wristwatch is older than the concept of the weekend. Abraham-Louis Breguet probably made the first wristwatch for the Queen of Naples in 1810. Sixty-nine years later, in 1879, the British magazine Notes and Queries first used the term “week-end” to describe the comings and goings of workers. (The weekend is only… Continue reading Everybody’s working for the weekend…
As a lady, if you choose to don a man's watch you are following in the footsteps of many stylish and rebellious women who have come before you. For most of modern history, a woman wearing men's apparel has been a defiant act. During the world wars, when women took on male roles they also… Continue reading Advice for women: Why you should steal men’s watches.
I had a question of involving watch manners recently, or maybe it was watch etiquette, either way, it was a conundrum. Sometimes when I am hunting some vintage brand or model, I will send a picture of it to Kaysia or Chris to bounce it off of them. Sometimes, they do that to me. Occasionally,… Continue reading What can Emily Post tell us about watches?
Greg: Why don’t I throw out another Round Table discussion: Can a watch brand be truly “underrated”? On our favorite forum last week two different posts alluded to Longines being an “underrated” brand. My head just about exploded. Longines has been one of the Ur-Swiss fine watch makers for nearly 150 years. Important people wore… Continue reading Round Table No. 5, Now with Four, an underrated discussion
I have had to keep off social media for the most part this week because my general mood has been.... ... and I don't want to get banned for snapping at some poor unsuspecting watch enthusiast (plus I'd feel awful later).This week has been an absolute disaster.We started with 3 doctors already off work and… Continue reading What one shitty day taught me about watch collecting. A.K.A. How watch collecting could help you save a life.
Here in the Northern Hemisphere Summer is just beginning to hint that it may end someday. It’s not that the days are less hot and uncomfortable, it is that the day ends a minute or so sooner. It is difficult to be outside and active. Things have slowed to a listless pace. My small American… Continue reading Horse Latitudes
To all my fellow watch lover's reading this, I'm sure you can relate to those countless times you've caught a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and thought "Damn... I don't know what it is... but I am looking smoking HOT today." and then end up late for that work meeting because you're just so… Continue reading What makes watch people just so damn sexy?
I finished brushing my teeth and walked back into the bedroom. I was wearing nothing but my watch. “So, is it too small?” I said as I reached the doorway. “I mean, I know…” The words trailed off. She made an involuntary sound that was halfway between a sign and a moan. “This again? We… Continue reading It’s how you use it…
The Escapement Room 