The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true… Read More ›
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Our mission to buy a fake Rolex on Facebook
Facebook has a major problem with scammers and fake designer goods on its popular Marketplace platform, contributing to a global counterfeiting industry that is worth an estimated half a trillion dollars a year, or around £358 billion. Marketplace lets users… Read More ›
“I have yet to meet anyone who owns an Apple Watch who’s passionate about the product.”
“I have yet to meet anyone who owns an Apple Watch who’s passionate about the product,” Zerella said, adding that Watch sales mainly piggybacked off iPhones sales. Ouch. Apple doesn’t spill the beans on sales figures of its smartwatch, but… Read More ›
I downloaded all my Facebook data
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 ›
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 ›
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