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 ›
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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 ›
I’m going to vote for the least shit shit show in a sea of shit
This general election is awful in so many ways that it is hard to fathom just how bad things have got, and how we have found ourselves in this position. Like so many people I speak to I have no… Read More ›
One man’s Rolex tells its story at last
My initial reaction was that something felt off. Sifting through memoranda written by senior intelligence officials seemed like something I should not have been doing. It was all very Hollywood, the story unfolding in the same way that an artifact… Read More ›
One man’s descent into the underworld of sports
The fans who needed tickets stood out. We called them “straights” because they stand straight up in a crowd protecting the cash they’re unused to carrying, hands stuck in their pockets, and you could make a few thousand dollars in… Read More ›
It simply has to be Grand Seiko
I don’t wear watches to impress others. Yes, everyone says that, but it is true and if anything I prefer for others to not know what I am wearing. A Rolex dos make you a target in certain situations and… Read More ›
