The Little Machines
Writing about watches, with occasional and unapologetic drifts in to old Land Rovers, mountains and oceans.
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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…
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