Waaaaay back in 1984 – the year Mary Lou Retton tore up the Olympics in L.A. – Heuer was still a thing and they plopped a dive watch into its catalog called the Super Professional. From a brand that had… Read More ›
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The New York subway map
This is a perfect example of how you can display a topic on the web. Brilliant.
A lesson learned
I was on holiday recently and visited a vintage watch shop that I had been very impressed with. The range of stock is hugely impressive and diverse, and the owner is exactly what you would want from anyone who run… Read More ›
Guns were on everyone’s mind…
Susan Wolfe, a resident of the affluent Lakeview neighborhood, had a .38 Smith & Wesson blue steel snub-nose five-shot revolver. A medical student at Louisiana State University, Wolfe came home on the afternoon of April 28, 1987, to find her… Read More ›
Confessions of a watch flipper
Admitting you have “flipped” a grail watch to the watch-collecting community is a fast-track route to becoming a social pariah. But get found out by the maker of that watch and things get much, much worse. Why? Because now, according… Read More ›
Apple Is Designing for a Post-Facebook World
Take the new Notes. In iOS 13, you’ll still be able to make a standard Reminder or To-Do list. But since Notes knows your contacts, now you can mention people inside the app to tag them (it seems to work… Read More ›
Fossil’s Hybrid HR smartwatches
When you click into one of these apps, the watch hands move to point to 9 and 3, so they’re horizontal, and then the information displays above and below them. It works, but it’s awkward. Worse: it means that very… Read More ›
What would happen if Rolex went to space?
Omega is known above all else for the Speedmaster and the fact that it went to the moon. The brand has made a big deal of this fact, a huge deal and arguably without this the company would be significantly… Read More ›
Time to say goodbye to Leonard
So, this is it. The final Leonard Cohen album has arrived and while this is a sad moment the album is a genuine surprise. It sits up there with his very best and it would appear that, like many other… Read More ›
An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream
A NASA spokesperson says the agency is now drawing up plans for a formal ultrasound program to monitor all of its astronauts while they’re in orbit. It has also made sure that the ISS “is equipped with appropriate treatments in… Read More ›
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