A look at Surrey NanoSystems's Vantablack & the blackest building on the planet, designed by Asif Khan for the 2018 Olympics.
Kari Voutilainen Crafts a Handful of Timepieces With His Team Each Year, Averaging Between 25 & 55 Per Year Over the Past Decade
Georges Kern on Taking Stock in Breitling, Endeavoring to Be the BMW of the Watch World, & the Power of Digital Mediums
‘Only Clock’
By Vadim Kibardin.
Image credit Vadim Kibardin
A Quartz-powered Minute Repeater Has Anyone Seen Under the Hood of One of These?
Making Straps at Julien Faure
When it comes to weaving quality straps, more, finer threads trumps fewer, thicker threads.
A charming video by Greyson Korhonen, for Hodinkee, that takes you inside the French factory, Julien Faure, that crafts woven straps for Tudor.
An Apple Patent for Smart Watch Straps
Skeleton Loomi Swatch
The Skeleton Loomi Swatch watch came packaged in a dinosaur.
Image credit Swatch
Geneva School Watch
An example of the school watch created by every graduate of the Geneva School of Watchmaking. This one was crafted by Daniel Gras.
Image credit Daniel Gras
Not Your Average Velcro Watch
People Often Ask Me if It's Bad to Leave Their Watch on a Watch Winder. The Short Answer Is It Can Be. This Worn Post Is the Result of Several Years on a Winder, Running With Degraded Lubrication
Placing Facebook’s ‘Flicks’ in the Historical Context of Time Measurement
Beijing Watch’s MRB-1 A Wristwatch Sized Minute-repeater, Which Chimes the Time on Demand, Coupled With a Tourbillon, Outfitted With a Free-sprung Balance Wheel. Made in China.
Bradley Price of Autodromo Talks Through the Design & Development of the Ford GT Endurance Chronograph
Classifying Watch Brands
Thoughts on classifying watch brands from Michael Clerizo.
A subject that seems fit for an over-evolved Venn diagram.
12 Timepieces Sported by 007 Along With Some of the Horological History Behind Them
Oversize Lange
Nice, contextual shot of A Lange & Söhne’s massive model of their latest creation, from SJX. Fun to learn from Jason Heaton, via The Grey Nato podcast, that the entire, functional model is machined primarily out of aluminum.
Image credit JX Su
Playless Gear Ca. 1923
Marcel de Coninck's "new & useful improvements in Flexible Gearing" via Mat the Watchnerd.
