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• Is the Apple Pencil the next killer iPhone feature?

  By Shaun on June 30, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  Apple is obviously not going to be releasing a foldable phone this year. To attempt to do so at this time would be to have little regard for their customers and to effectively let them beta test a new technology… Read More ›

• Vintage gold watches

  By Shaun on June 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I recently bought a vintage gold Avia Incabloc watch for not much money at all and I have been more than surprised by how I feel about it. It is quite small and very thin, at least in comparison to… Read More ›

• Reunited with £10,000 Rolex lost overboard 20 years ago

  By Shaun on June 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The yacht engineer was given the precious engraved Rolex Submariner in 1998 by his now deceased former employer and friend, Italian businessman Raul Gardini, who had an estimated £2.2 billion fortune at the time. But he lost his beloved watch… Read More ›

• Timex X Nigel Cabourn Referee

  By Shaun on June 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For his much anticipated second collaboration with Timex, Nigel looks back to his boyhood in 1950s Scunthorpe and his love of the beautiful game for inspiration. Paying homage to the footballing greats of this era he’s taken reference from referee… Read More ›

• Bye Jony

  By Shaun on June 28, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Apple’s chief design officer Jonathan Ive will depart the company later this year, bringing an end to a tenure spent crafting some of technology’s most influential products, including the iPhone. Ive, who has led Apple’s design team since 1996, is… Read More ›

• Saving the ocean. Really?

  By Shaun on June 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Watches have been linked to the ocean forever. From the marine chronometers invented by John Harrison in the 1700s to the first ever waterproof watch case, the Oyster, from Rolex in 1926. And now with so many issues floating to… Read More ›

• If corporate logos were a little more honest

  By Shaun on June 27, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  These reinterpretations of corporate logos are to the point and on the whole spot on. The full set is here. And on the subject of logo design, how impressive is the one below for Tokyo 2020?

• The Seiko Prospex Fieldmaster Lowercase Beams edition

  By Shaun on June 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It is 49.5mm wide, 14.1mm thick, limited to 500 pieces and very very orange. I should not like this watch, but I do. More here.

• San Francisco to ban e-cigarettes

  By Shaun on June 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  San Francisco has become the first US city to ban sales of e-cigarettes until their health effects are clearer. Officials on Tuesday voted to ban stores selling the vaporisers and made it illegal for online retailers to deliver to addresses… Read More ›

• The polls are clear

  By Shaun on June 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For most of this year, polls have shown remain ahead of leave, typically by four to six points. But in a referendum between staying in the EU and leaving on the terms that the government has negotiated, staying enjoys an… Read More ›