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• Every Omega James Bond Watch

  By Shaun on December 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  This rather came out of leftfield for even the most seasoned Bond-ologists: a limited edition Seamaster 300M, produced to mark the half-century since George Lazenby picked up a Walther PPK (and a beige cardigan) for his only outing as 007…. Read More ›

• The Worst Designed Products of 2019

  By Shaun on December 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Heinz and Cadbury weren’t the only ones to launch a highly mockable product. For your reading pleasure, we’ve rounded up a shortlist of this year’s worst design fails. In no particular order, here are the products that most invite the… Read More ›

• One man’s 1,648-page quest

  By Shaun on December 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In 1988, Friedberg, then an attorney in his mid-40s, found a new thing to collect. He was in Washington, D.C., on business, and during a stroll down Wisconsin Avenue, a vintage watch shop caught his eye. “I didn’t know stores… Read More ›

• Why Apple News+ isn’t working (for me)

  By Shaun on December 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Apple News+ just isn’t working for me and it doesn’t feel as if it ever will. For someone who has read eBooks for the past decade over traditional books this should be the perfect substitution for paper magazines, but it… Read More ›

• Wrist Game or Crying Shame

  By Shaun on December 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Waaaaay back in 1984 – the year Mary Lou Retton tore up the Olympics in L.A. – Heuer was still a thing and they plopped a dive watch into its catalog called the Super Professional. From a brand that had… Read More ›

• The New York subway map

  By Shaun on December 4, 2019 • ( 1 )

  This is a perfect example of how you can display a topic on the web. Brilliant.

• A lesson learned

  By Shaun on December 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  I was on holiday recently and visited a vintage watch shop that I had been very impressed with. The range of stock is hugely impressive and diverse, and the owner is exactly what you would want from anyone who run… Read More ›

• Guns were on everyone’s mind…

  By Shaun on December 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Susan Wolfe, a resident of the affluent Lakeview neighborhood, had a .38 Smith & Wesson blue steel snub-nose five-shot revolver. A medical student at Louisiana State University, Wolfe came home on the afternoon of April 28, 1987, to find her… Read More ›

• The Dan Henry 1970 Automatic Divers

  By Shaun on December 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Many technologies are used to make watches water resistant, but the truly revolutionary step was adding an inner bezel that times the dive, and those timekeeping instruments became irreplaceable underwater. Everything about those watches was designed to create the highest… Read More ›

• I returned my AirPods pro after feeling dizzy too

  By Shaun on November 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  I returned my AirPods pro after feeling dizzy too. First day of use was ok, then the second day it really started getting to me. I felt kind of motion sick, and my balance was a little off. Even with… Read More ›

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