There are a number of recurring trends and stories in the watch industry that are worthy of attention and analysis. Chief among these are the roots of the timepieces as we know them today. Also important is the further integration of new technologies into these already complex devices. Zenith’s Christophe Colomb was a unique piece [...]
Ships’ clocks are a thing of beauty. But they’re also far more complicated and functional than those thin little disks known as wristwatches. No, ships’ clocks are required to operate for long periods of time in corrosive conditions. Waves and other rhythmic motions can’t be allowed to throw the device off. When a company sets out to [...]
The ECO-DRIVE is just the latest in green technology to come from Japan, that innovative island nation. It’s given the country a competitive advantage, a head start perhaps, in what will surely evolve to be one of the First World’s largest industries: cleaning up the mess that they created in the first place. In an [...]
Dent & Co. has been saved, and those of us in both the United States and the United Kingdom should be grateful. We have the British cultural Renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s to thank for this. Whether it was Margaret Thatcher, the Falkland Islands War, or the eventual defeat of Soviet-style communism, something helped [...]
True enough: necessity is the mother of invention. But perhaps we fail to appreciate the degree to which necessity drove innovation in watchmaking so many centuries ago. Today, we count on our timepieces to do so much–and within such a small physical space. Not only do we expect them to be crafted from elegant, precious [...]
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