The Little Machines
Writing about watches, with occasional and unapologetic drifts in to old Land Rovers, mountains and oceans.
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Timing Is Everything
There’s rare, and then there’s rare. Also, there’s what you know and what you don’t, and what AI knows and what it doesn’t; and at the end of this equation is gold. Or at least sand-blasted stainless steel. To explain… The company Edouard Heuer founded in 1860 and which bore his surname became a watch-making…
Breitling 41 Airborne, a short-lived treasure
As I think is well known to regulars, I like a Breitling. Wonderful company, fabulous history, and a genuine and deep link to aviation. I just love the way they do things in terms of design, function and robustness. Few watch companies make pieces as solid, capable, handsome and batterable as a Breitling, and unique…
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,…
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