
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
‘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.
The word “fob” (as in watch fob) is derived from the German word “fuppe” meaning “pocket”