Downloading your Facebook history is easy. Just go to settings and select the option to get your data. It took Facebook a few minutes to prepare my information, and then my entire history was neatly archived in four folders. Looking… Read More ›
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Lacking size
Someone at work would appear to be making up for a lack of size elsewhere…
The dream of just a screen
Every now and then I catch myself using the iPhone X and realising just how impressive a device it is. When I look back to the early iPhone, the Palm Treo and even the Psions, the iPhone X is a… Read More ›
The complete set
How important is the box, paperwork, receipt and evidenced history of a watch to you? I guess when buying a vintage watch it adds a sense of security to the purchase and acts like a mythical guarantee that lets you… Read More ›
The Seiko SRP775: instant vintage
I bought an SRP775 when it was first released and ended up flipping it for a PADI version which was then flipped for something else and so the familiar tale of loving watches continued until I ended up back with… Read More ›
Avoiding the rabbit hole of a rotation
Despite having bought numerous watches over the past few years, and almost always selling them on, I have somehow managed to avoid going down the rabbit hole of a rotation. I like to wear one watch for longer periods if… Read More ›
Seiko’s continuing quality control problem
Revenue: ¥296.7 billion (FY2015, consolidated) Employees: 13,437 (March 31, 2016, consolidated) Seiko is a huge corporation which makes millions of watches in every section of the industry. From simple quartz watches to the Grand Seiko, the brand is well-loved and respected… Read More ›
The race to space during the 1950s and ‘60s between Russia and the United States…
The pictured Speedmaster would accompany Stafford on a number of missions including Gemini 6A & 9, as well as Apollo 10. Project Gemini was NASA’s second program of human spaceflight, and was intended to assist with developing the agency’s methods… Read More ›
Digital Alarm Clock History
The year that the Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, invented what’s widely considered the first electric doorbell, which used a tightly coiled electromagnet to create a ringing noise by forcing a magnet to swing at a… Read More ›
An Homage to the Tudor Heritage Black Bay
The Invicta bracelet is similar in style to that of the Black Bay, except that the former has polised centre links, whereas the latter is fully brushed. There’s also yet another “Invicta” logo and emblem that has to go. One… Read More ›
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