Writing on watches…
One Sub to rule them all…
There’s little that hasn’t been written about the Rolex Submariner, perhaps the most iconic of watches. It’s one of the few timepieces recognisable to the person in the street with no interest in horology. Since Roger Moore’s James Bond first unzipped a woman’s dress with a magnetic Sub in Live and Let Die in 1973,…
The rise and fall of Bremont
Let us begin our discussion about Bremont, and what’s happened to it, by slightly pretentiously quoting the English poet G.K. Chesterton, and specifically his masterpiece “The Secret People”. “They have given us in to the hands of the new, unhappy Lords “Lords without anger or honour who dare not carry their swords. “They fight by…
SPB143 – It’s (finally) time to talk about “that” watch
It took about six weeks for Seiko’s Prospex SPB143 dive watch to go from new release in 2020 to a watch universally described as an instant and future classic. I’m not certain that even Seiko knew exactly what was about to happen when they launched the SPB14X range, of which the 143 was one of…
Off the rails – the decline, fall and rebirth of the Railway Watch
This is an article which is, eventually, going to be about the Omega “Trilogy” Railmaster 60th Anniversary Limited Edition; but between now than then it’s also going to skate over the state of the male psyche, which I’ll tell you now doesn’t come out of it well, and the end of steam travel, as well…
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