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• History of the Swatch Watch

  By Shaun on July 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The answer was in the design. The Swatch name came from a contraction of two words: secondary watch. The idea was that a watch could be analogous to a necktie or other fashion accessory. No one owned just one tie,… Read More ›

• Ginault And The Curious Case Of The Counterfeit Rolex Watch Factory

  By Shaun on July 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Everyone loves a good detective story or whodunit, so when our inbox got flooded yesterday with links to an absolutely massively in depth blog post about Ginault watches and the shady world of counterfeit Rolex watch manufacturer, we had to… Read More ›

• Will the Apple Watch outsell the entire Swiss watch industry next year?

  By Shaun on July 3, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  It might be an accurate assessment. The research firm Strategy Analytics has calculated that 22.5 million Apple Watches were shipped in 2018, while the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said the industry exported 23.7 million watches in the same… Read More ›

• W6 Stand for Apple Watch

  By Shaun on July 3, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  View your Apple Watch display through a blast from the past. elago’s fourth series of nostalgic apple watch stands – successor to the W3, W4, and W5 stand. The display lines up perfectly to seem as though it is the… Read More ›

• Will the Apple Watch outsell the entire Swiss watch industry next year?

  By Shaun on July 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It might be an accurate assessment. The research firm Strategy Analytics has calculated that 22.5 million Apple Watches were shipped in 2018, while the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said the industry exported 23.7 million watches in the same… Read More ›

• Omega, please stop!

  By Shaun on July 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Met is pleased to partner with OMEGA on this special edition of the OMEGA Speedmaster, one of OMEGA’s most iconic timepieces. The Moonwatch “First OMEGA in Space” was inspired by the watch worn by astronaut Wally Shirra in 1962… Read More ›

• The George Daniels Space Traveller I Sells For $4.6 Million

  By Shaun on July 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Earlier today, Sotheby’s London sold the George Daniels Space Traveller I for a whopping $4.6 million, making it the most expensive English watch to ever sell at auction. There’s little question that George Daniels is one of the greatest watchmakers… Read More ›

• Jony Ive’s most iconic Apple designs

  By Shaun on July 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Ive’s involvement in the design of Apple’s HQ Apple Park could well have given him the taste to move beyond designing tech (just don’t mention the monitor stand)… More here. A bit of an obvious list, but they are all… Read More ›

• Gun Zapped

  By Shaun on July 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  If you know the story behind ArchieLuxury and TGV you will find this hilarious. If you don’t, you will probably (remarkably) like Archie more than TGV by the end of it…

• The Apple TimeBand

  By Shaun on June 30, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Created as a concept piece by the “Industrial Design Group” who displayed it on the March/April 1991 back cover of Industrial Design magazine, it has buttons on the left that imply phone connectivity and print service. On the screen, menu… Read More ›