This rather came out of leftfield for even the most seasoned Bond-ologists: a limited edition Seamaster 300M, produced to mark the half-century since George Lazenby picked up a Walther PPK (and a beige cardigan) for his only outing as 007…. Read More ›
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One man’s 1,648-page quest
In 1988, Friedberg, then an attorney in his mid-40s, found a new thing to collect. He was in Washington, D.C., on business, and during a stroll down Wisconsin Avenue, a vintage watch shop caught his eye. “I didn’t know stores… Read More ›
Why Apple News+ isn’t working (for me)
Apple News+ just isn’t working for me and it doesn’t feel as if it ever will. For someone who has read eBooks for the past decade over traditional books this should be the perfect substitution for paper magazines, but it… Read More ›
Wrist Game or Crying Shame
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 ›
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 ›
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