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• Tudor Black Bay GMT thoughts. Too good for me?

  By Shaun on April 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For many years I have wanted a Tudor Black Bay Heritage. It has always been the watch I look at and consider to be ‘the one’. I cannot explain why, but the cliche of ‘it needs to speak to you’… Read More ›

• Spot the difference

  By Shaun on April 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  A colleague at work bought a new watch for £13. It is the one on the left in the above photo. The one on the right costs £2,780 and to anyone who does not like watches a purchase of the… Read More ›

• Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean the algorithms aren’t out to get you

  By Shaun on April 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  By no means are all malevolent programs an accident; some are designed with mischief in mind. Bots can be used to generate or spread misinformation. Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net (US) (UK), warns of a future of ultra-personalised… Read More ›

• The humbling of Britain

  By Shaun on April 6, 2019 • ( 2 )

  This is not “taking back control”. This is not the proud, independent, liberated Britain that the Brexiteers promised. It is grotesque, calamitous, an epic act of self-harm brought about not by some war or disaster but by our own stupidity…. Read More ›

• When Life’s Noises Drive You Mad

  By Shaun on April 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  “My heart starts to pound. I go one of two ways. I either start to cry or I just get really intensely angry. It’s really intense. I mean, it’s as if you’re going to die,” she says. Rapp has been… Read More ›

• Powerbeats Pro thoughts

  By Shaun on April 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Beats says its Powerbeats wireless earbuds are the most popular fitness headphones in the world, and the new Pro model sheds the cable that links the left and right buds together. They retain the look and identity of Powerbeats, but… Read More ›

• 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 ›