Author Archives
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The Daily Mail reaches a new low…
It’s fair to say that the general vibe of Glastonbury is a fairly socially liberal one, so it’s not somewhere you’d be likely to see a MAGA cap, for instance, or an “I love Brexit” T-shirt, like the one worn… Read More ›
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Buying bronze?
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Your sense of time…
The sense of time I have as a millennial is so weird… 1970: About 30 years ago 1980: About 20 years ago 1990: About 10 years ago 2000: About 10 years ago 2010: About 1,000 years ago 2016: About 10,000… Read More ›
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History of the Swatch Watch
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 ›
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Ginault And The Curious Case Of The Counterfeit Rolex Watch Factory
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 ›
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Will the Apple Watch outsell the entire Swiss watch industry next year?
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 ›
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W6 Stand for Apple Watch
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 ›
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Will the Apple Watch outsell the entire Swiss watch industry next year?
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 ›
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Omega, please stop!
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 ›
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The George Daniels Space Traveller I Sells For $4.6 Million
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 ›
