Girard-Perregaux: repairs, loose ends and reflections on the practicalities of a vintage watch
I am one of those weirdos who buy old watches to use as they were originally intended. I buy watches …
I am one of those weirdos who buy old watches to use as they were originally intended. I buy watches …
Imagine for a moment that you are a marketing executive working for a long-established Swiss watch company in the late …
By some weird quirk of the ebb and flow of taste, fashion and the power of marketing, that most evocative …
You know what? I think we are getting somewhere. This has been somewhat of a marathon of the unfamiliar, taking …
Inevitably, on the lead up to Christmas, I buy too many cranberries. This year is no exception although somehow I …
Last Spring I developed a hankering for a quartz timing machine, the throughput of watches powered by the dark side …
A number of circumstances have conspired in the past few weeks to keep me from much in the way of …
It is not that common these days that I find myself confounded by a fault affecting a watch movement. Well, …
In the eyes of a typical consumer on the hunt for a new wristwatch, the received wisdom is that a …
There is a sense that we may just be starting to see a shift away from the obsession with giant …
Towards the end of the 1980’s three different manufacturers, Sinn, Tutima and Precista released low profile 200m rated divers watches, …