The latest to enter the fray is Hublot, with the launch this week of the Big Bang E. With other players including Louis Vuitton and Frederique Constant also well established, it is clear that, despite the Apple Watch outselling the… Read More ›
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Luxury brands aren’t giving up on smartwatches
The latest to enter the fray is Hublot, with the launch this week of the Big Bang E. With other players including Louis Vuitton and Frederique Constant also well established, it is clear that, despite the Apple Watch outselling the… Read More ›
IWC’s Da Vinci through the Europa Star Archive
In each decade, the focus of Europa Star shifts subtly, from facilitating international trade in the 1950s and 1960s to promoting the entire watch industry in recent decades. It was not traditionally written for “people like me,” the customers of… Read More ›
Long May They Reign
Most female monarchs disperse their eggs as widely as possible, but for unknowable reasons, Ovaltine laid almost 600 in Beyer’s yard. Under normal conditions, fewer than 5 percent of monarch eggs survive to adulthood. Beyer wanted the marvel she had… Read More ›
John F. Kennedy’s Watch
Today’s JFK’s Omega Ultra Thin sits in Omega’s museum in Bienne, Switzerland—the brand purchased the watch at auction for $350,000 in 2005. And as far as presidential watches go, it remains an artifact of a different time. With the exception… Read More ›
Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets
Within 48 hours of the fact-check, Trump was preparing to issue an executive order that would ban federal spending on social platforms that exercise certain editorial powers and encourage the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to launch investigations… Read More ›
Ressence & Sotheby’s Design Competition’s Winning Watch
Speaking about the competition, Ressence founder and CEO Benoît Mintiens said, “Letting our community have the final say and be part of our project felt like the right thing to do. During the selection process, we discussed the feasibility of… Read More ›
A £339 anti-5G USB stick
A device costing more than £300 promises to protect your family from the supposed dangers of 5G, using ground-breaking quantum technology – but does it work? Of course not. The rollout of the new 5G mobile networks began in the… Read More ›
Trying to buy a Nintendo Switch
I expect to see silly prices on eBay when a product is hard to get, but even Amazon is allowing all sorts of price gouging on the Switch at the moment. We have been pondering one for a while, we… Read More ›
The ’80s watch is back
Instead it was a time of simpler pleasures. As it was, 1984 bequeathed us some memorable milestones in popular culture. It was the year in which colour television finally got the show it was waiting for, Miami Vice: all pastel… Read More ›
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