The Garmin Venu arrived yesterday and after some tinkering I came to some quick conclusions- Finally, Garmin is using a decent quality screen that rivals the Apple Watch and it includes a cut down always-on display. You can expect 2-3… Read More ›
Watches
Reviewing the Vivoactive 4 as if it were an Apple device
For the past few days I have been playing with the Garmin Vivoactive 4 and have come to some early conclusions that I realised were based on the brand rather than the product itself. I wrote recently about how the… Read More ›
It’s scary how far ahead the Apple Watch is
Apple shipped 6.8 million smartwatches worldwide in Q3 2019, rising an above-average 51 percent from 4.5 million in Q3 2018. Apple Watch remains a long way ahead of the chasing pack and its global smartwatch marketshare has grown from 45… Read More ›
The Mondaine stop2go: technical innovation
It truly is unique in the watch world and highlights how not all technical innovation has to come through mobile or laptop screens… More here. It would be easy to ignore this article because it is about a watch, but… Read More ›
Doing The Two-Wrist Tango
The idea of having something on your wrist for two way communications seemed pretty cool in the 1960s and the cool factor, for me anyway, is considerably dialed up, as it were, with the Apple Watch. As of the Series… Read More ›
Will the Apple Watch outsell the entire Swiss watch industry next year?
It might be an accurate assessment. The research firm Strategy Analytics has calculated that 22.5 million Apple Watches were shipped in 2018, while the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said the industry exported 23.7 million watches in the same… Read More ›
The Gruen Airflight
Looks like a watch with 24 date windows, no? Well, look again. Let’s not beat around the bush: the Gruen Airflight has twelve see-through apertures in the dial. At 1 pm a thin under-the-dial plate shifts automatically to expose the… Read More ›
No one noticed it, no one…
The person putting the dial together didn’t notice. The person putting the case together didn’t notice. The person doing the final quality checking didn’t notice. The person selling it didn’t notice. The person buying it didn’t notice. We humans are… Read More ›
The Electrostatic Accutron Concept Movement
The Accutron concept movement will remind Accutron enthusiasts immediately of the Accutron Spaceview, an original-production Accutron which had an open dial, allowing the tuning fork mechanism and transistor to be seen. The concept movement likewise exposes the mechanism, however, there’s… Read More ›
When your grail is not the best, it’s still your grail
When I first became very interested in watches, there was one particular model that I always aspired to own. It was the Tudor Black Bay Red and this feeling never really left me. Aspirational is the word because after running… Read More ›
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