As you may know I have owned a lot of watches and one thing that they have all had in common is the ability to survive life. Whether they have been £10 or £1,000 I have never had a watch… Read More ›
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Why It’s Still Worth Shooting with Film
So, you might ask, why would anyone even think about shooting with old-school film these days? The stuff is finicky and has to be developed in a time-consuming process, delaying our now accustomed instant gratification of seeing photos immediately. But… Read More ›
How does a watch guy fall for the Apple Watch?
When I reviewed the series 4 Apple Watch a few weeks ago I was somewhat disparaging about certain aspects. The battery life was a big downside for me, but perhaps more than anything the fact it is not a ‘real’… Read More ›
Sinatra and Kennedy
The sequence of events seems essentially right, except for the quaint idea that Bobby—or anybody else who read a newspaper or gossip column over the previous twenty years—was unaware of Sinatra’s fraternizing with the Mob. If Frank’s fondness for gangsters… Read More ›
It keeps hitting you…
It hits you. It keeps hitting you. You don’t know when it’ll end, because there’s some things you simply cannot prepare for. A loved one dies. A loved one dies suddenly. A loved one dies tragically. You might feel numb…. Read More ›
Inside Wayback Machine
Today, the Wayback Machine houses some 388B web pages, and its parent, the Internet Archive, is the world’s largest library. The Internet Archive’s collection, which spans not just the web, but books, audio 78rpm records, videos, images, and software, amounts… Read More ›
Apple doesn’t understand watch dial design
When I say all, that is of course not always the case because brands like Diesel, Invicta and some others make some god awful watches that only those with zero taste would wear. However, the majority look at design for… Read More ›
App Scams
Last summer Apple deleted an app scamming $80,000/month from iOS users. At the time, Apple promised to pay closer attention to subscription apps to prevent similar schemes in the future. Clearly, however, some are still slipping through… More at Forbes…. Read More ›
A moment of sanity
I spent some time yesterday looking at the Oris Carl Brashear limited edition and just for a moment thought that the asking price of £3,600 was reasonable. It was one of those moments when reason had left the building, when… Read More ›
The Spring Bar
If you feel like ordering at least a hundred, Otto Frei will sell them to you (at the time of this writing) for the low, low price of exactly 94 cents a pop (“assembled by hand in a small village… Read More ›
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