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• What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend

  By Shaun on April 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  You know, I’m not. I’m 59, and now that I’ve been living in the world on my own and managing my own money for a while, I have developed the opposite view of almost everything that my parents did. I… Read More ›

• The Electrostatic Accutron Concept Movement

  By Shaun on April 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Accutron concept movement will remind Accutron enthusiasts immediately of the Accutron Spaceview, an original-production Accutron which had an open dial, allowing the tuning fork mechanism and transistor to be seen. The concept movement likewise exposes the mechanism, however, there’s… Read More ›

• When your grail is not the best, it’s still your grail

  By Shaun on April 4, 2019 • ( 1 )

  When I first became very interested in watches, there was one particular model that I always aspired to own. It was the Tudor Black Bay Red and this feeling never really left me. Aspirational is the word because after running… Read More ›

• Tokyo Street Art Pieces

  By Shaun on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  While the graffiti scene in Asia has been a relatively new import from the west, it’s been a well established subculture in Tokyo ever since it made its way to Japan in the late-1980s. Growing to include more than just… Read More ›

• AirPower abandoned

  By Shaun on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In a highly unusual step for the firm, Apple has given up on a product because it could not make it work adequately. AirPower, announced in 2017, was a mat meant to charge multiple devices without needing to plug them… Read More ›

• Extra floors, extra steps…

  By Shaun on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  After much negotiation I obtained a new fitbit device and unfortunately it is exactly the same as the first one. Continues to count floors which I have not climbed. This is a hardware problem and therefore cannot be fixed by… Read More ›

• Generation Snowflake (is older than you may think)

  By Shaun on March 28, 2019 • ( 1 )

  The two most important things to know about the snowflakes of popular journalism are that they are a) easily offended and b) young. They are po-faced undergraduates at Sussex and SOAS, the new Red Guards who live to tear down… Read More ›

• The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May’s resignation

  By Shaun on March 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  What an abominable circus. It’s hard to know where the greater blame should be put. On the prime minister who has made her own eradication a bribe to force through the product of her failure? Or the great defenders of… Read More ›

• Jabra Elite 65t In-Ear True Wireless Headphones review

  By Shaun on March 26, 2019 • ( 2 )

  AirPods AirPods AirPods! Sometimes it feels as though there are AirPods and a tiny selection of competitors that make up a slither of the market. When I go to the gym I see AirPods, on the train there are AirPods… Read More ›

• Citizen Brycen (AW1590-55E) review

  By Shaun on March 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  So, I finally got my grail watch, a Tudor Black Bay, and was happy. I wasn’t 100% happy because it was the GMT rather than the Black Bay Black, but because the waiting lists are so long to get the… Read More ›