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The Worst Designed Products of 2019
Heinz and Cadbury weren’t the only ones to launch a highly mockable product. For your reading pleasure, we’ve rounded up a shortlist of this year’s worst design fails. In no particular order, here are the products that most invite the… Read More ›
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One man’s 1,648-page quest
In 1988, Friedberg, then an attorney in his mid-40s, found a new thing to collect. He was in Washington, D.C., on business, and during a stroll down Wisconsin Avenue, a vintage watch shop caught his eye. “I didn’t know stores… Read More ›
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Why Apple News+ isn’t working (for me)
Apple News+ just isn’t working for me and it doesn’t feel as if it ever will. For someone who has read eBooks for the past decade over traditional books this should be the perfect substitution for paper magazines, but it… Read More ›
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Wrist Game or Crying Shame
Waaaaay back in 1984 – the year Mary Lou Retton tore up the Olympics in L.A. – Heuer was still a thing and they plopped a dive watch into its catalog called the Super Professional. From a brand that had… Read More ›
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The New York subway map
This is a perfect example of how you can display a topic on the web. Brilliant.
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A lesson learned
I was on holiday recently and visited a vintage watch shop that I had been very impressed with. The range of stock is hugely impressive and diverse, and the owner is exactly what you would want from anyone who run… Read More ›
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Guns were on everyone’s mind…
Susan Wolfe, a resident of the affluent Lakeview neighborhood, had a .38 Smith & Wesson blue steel snub-nose five-shot revolver. A medical student at Louisiana State University, Wolfe came home on the afternoon of April 28, 1987, to find her… Read More ›
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The Dan Henry 1970 Automatic Divers
Many technologies are used to make watches water resistant, but the truly revolutionary step was adding an inner bezel that times the dive, and those timekeeping instruments became irreplaceable underwater. Everything about those watches was designed to create the highest… Read More ›
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I returned my AirPods pro after feeling dizzy too
I returned my AirPods pro after feeling dizzy too. First day of use was ok, then the second day it really started getting to me. I felt kind of motion sick, and my balance was a little off. Even with… Read More ›
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Sotheby’s Latest Watch Auction
The auction represents a wide assortment of rare and unusual merchandise related but not limited to Rolex (there’s a little Patek Philippe and Piaget included for good measure). Plenty of watches are in the mix and they comprise the majority… Read More ›
