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• Seiko SRP713 K1 review

  By Shaun on February 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Buying a watch below £200 represents, for many, a purchase that is designed for trips to the beach, occasional wear and for when you need a ‘beater’. This term means a watch that you do not worry about damaging because… Read More ›

• Seiko SRP713 K1 review

  By Shaun on February 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Buying a watch below £200 represents, for many, a purchase that is designed for trips to the beach, occasional wear and for when you need a ‘beater’. This term means a watch that you do not worry about damaging because… Read More ›

• One of America’s Last Pencil Factories

  By Shaun on February 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Such radical simplicity is surprisingly complicated to produce. Since 1889, the General Pencil Company has been converting huge quantities of raw materials (wax, paint, cedar planks, graphite) into products you can find, neatly boxed and labeled, in art and office-supply… Read More ›

• How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life

  By Shaun on February 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Dinner consumed and sleep completed, I awoke with one of the worst bouts of food poisoning I’ve ever encountered, a wasting that lasted through midway into the next week. Eventually, the illness subsided, but I wasn’t concerned when I woke… Read More ›

• Oh my…

  By Shaun on January 13, 2018 • ( 1 )

• H&M’s hoodie is not racist

  By Shaun on January 9, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  I’m a bit left wing, I support gay marriage, I don’t believe I am racist (apart from the natural racism that most of us white Western folk exhibit without realising it) and I would never judge anyone on the basis… Read More ›

• TAG Heuer Formula 1 Mens Watch review

  By Shaun on January 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The actual model number for this watch is WAZ2113.BA0875 which is useful to know because TAG does not differentiate its models much when it comes to describing them. It is a stainless steel watch with a 41mm face and it… Read More ›

• A Concise History Of The Smartwatch

  By Shaun on January 1, 2018 • ( 1 )

  The watches that had caught my attention were a Seiko wrist computer called MessageWatch and a prototype of a phone watch developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. in Japan that would ultimately be called Wristomo. “The ‘new quartz’ trend… Read More ›

• Did the big Fitbit Ionic update fix anything?

  By Shaun on January 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I got some time recently to test the big Fitbit Ionic update and must say that the 100 watch faces are useful because they give you as many options as you could possibly need. The fact that they cover a… Read More ›

• I do not like tradition

  By Shaun on December 30, 2017 • ( 16 )

  

  This is the time of year when many people struggle. Christmas is hard for those who are lonely and the New Year is even harder. It’s sad that people have to go through this every year, but I wonder if… Read More ›