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Nice Range of Tools at Work Behind the Scenes, Manufacturing Watch Movements, at Uhren-Werke in Dresden

Synthetic Diamond

With synthetic diamonds going mainstream, how long until diamond replaces sapphire’s widespread use as the scratch resistant crystal of choice for premium watch brands?

Image credit Andrew Urwin for The New York Times

Why Clocks Run Clockwise

the idea that the movement of clock hands was generally made to ape the motion of a sundial's shadow seems a reasonable one

Jack Forster delves into the esoteric history of clockwise motion.

An Explorer Dial Rolex Submariner That Took a Tumble in Concrete Mixer Survived to Snap Up £230,000 at Auction (the Original Owner Likely Paid Less Than £100 for It Brand New Back in the Day)

Not a Safe Queen

Unboxing Voutilainen's Manfredi 30th Anniversary Edition

“When you slide the two halves apart, there's just the right amount of resistance—it sort of reminds me of what Apple packaging might be like were Sir Jony Ive a Finnish watchmaker in the Vallée instead of a British designer in Cupertino.” – Stephen Pulvirent

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The Ascension of Antoine Preziuso

From tinkering with discarded tools and parts in the streets and alleyways of Geneva to crafting some of the most complicated and finely finished watches on the planet. The life and achievements of independent watchmaker, Antoine Preziuso.

Martian Watches Dialing Down

“Good Design Is a Consistent Watch With a Little Tension, Beautifully Proportioned, Original Visual Codes & Good Ergonomics.”

An interview with watch designer Eric Giroud.

“An Independent Watchmaker Is a Master of the Craft—with a Profound Knowledge of the Mechanicals of a Watch & a Sound Understanding of Geometry, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Mathematics, Aesthetics, & Horological History” – Michael Clerizo

"Protect Your Right to Repair Your Own Products"

– Tea Leoni

How A. Lange & Söhne Prices Its Timepieces Some Perspective From the Harvard Business Review

‘Mollusk Perpetual’ really doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as ‘Oyster Perpetual’

Turns out pearls don’t come from oysters. Oysters are members of the Ostridae family, in the phylum Mollusca, while pearls are grown in mollusks from the Pteriidae family of the same phylum.

Screw planned obsolescence. Planning for permanence—planned permanence—is how we keep this planet inhabitable long term.

Largely speaking, the products we design have permanence. Whether that’s in a landfill, polluting the oceans, or in faithfully fulfilling their intended purpose.

Plastic Planet

From the 5 Boroughs to the 5 Gyres, capitalism’s lack of mindfulness in designing for the long term is choking our ability to exist on the planet.

We can do better than this.