Traditional in looks with nouveau execution. The stamped dial of the new Louis Erard Regulateur, featuring design direction from William Massena, serves up a pleasing aesthetic with typography that almost seems to float above the dial.

The broad form of the 'A' in Massena's logotype, well-suited to watch dials and informed by vintage watch typography, stands in stark contrast to the slimmer, more modern 'A' in Louis-Erard's logotype, which is derived from type designed for signage and screens.

One of Vacheron Constantin's engravers putting the finishing touches on the wings of Nike for their Métiers d’Art 'Tribute to Great Civilisations' reference 7620A/000G-B928.

Rounding the stairs to encounter this graceful remnant from the Island of Samothrace, carved from white marble, stands out as one of the absolute highlights of the Louvre for me.

In 1924, British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set out to climb to the top of Mount Everest, nearly 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's successful ascent in 1953. Mark Synnott, author of The Third Pole, posits that photographic evidence of Mallory and Irvine's summit of Mount Everest may still exist from Irvine’s Vest Pocket Kodak camera.

I've long wondered whether Mallory and Irvine managed to make it to the peak—without supplemental oxygen, no less. Regardless of whether or not evidence ever surfaces that they did, Hillary and Norgay will forever remain the first to do it and live to tell the tale.

The L.U.C. Full Strike Sapphire from Chopard serves up some impressive material and acoustical engineering. Hewn from a solid disc of corundum, its duo of sapphire gongs that sound the time aid in improving the transmission of sound through its full-sapphire case.

Understandably, production is limited to just 5 pieces.

The UK-based 3D-modelling firm behind some of the marketing material for microbrands like Brew Watches.

Steven Fletcher, of BBC's The Repair Shop, brings life to family's heirloom wooden clock, "Old Oily", crafted by Ron Woodford.

How to take a "parrot" style wrist shot. A tutorial by Verne Ho, a former UX director at Shopify.

With Justin Hast, at the London Design Museum.

Ben Clymer, of Hodinkee, touches the tip of the ice-burg of Patrick Getreide's "One of a Kind Collection" (a.k.a. The OAK Collection) that is on display from May 19^th to 25^th, 2022 at the London Design Museum. One of the highlights includes a splendid tourbillon pocket watch, commissioned by Henry Graves Jr. in 1932, featuring a movement crafted by Pellaton for Patek Philippe.

While it may seem a little over-the-top for Getreide to employ a watchmaker for himself, when you consider the fact that servicing just one of the timepieces from his collection of over 600 rare and complicated timepieces would easily cost five figures at the manufacturer and potentially take years to get back, it makes sense. I have little doubt that maintaining this impressive collection for Getreide is both painstaking and a great pleasure for his watchmaker, Gabriel Tortola.

A hand-carved and well-preserved incense clock, in the form of a dragon, on display at the Time Museum of Tehran.

As the incense stick inside the dragon slowly burned up, it would burn through the strings laid across the back of the dragon and the bells on the ends of each string would drop, their chimes marking the passage of time.

If "design is how it works," I'm mildly surprised that this vintage, folding brass loupe, crafted by Leitz Wetzlar, is Ive's go-to magnifier. The barrel distortion of the lens is pronounced.

A whimsical take on time. The Orologio Lady Arpels Heures Florales by Van Cleef & Arpels displays the minutes in a track along the side of the timepiece, with the current hour corresponding to the number of flowers that are open on its dial.

A look at one of Kari Voutilainen's later decimal repeaters, produced circa 2010, alongside a number of other independent timepieces coming up for auction at Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction XV.

While the open, arched indices on Philippe Narbel's inaugural ROOTS timepiece appear to have been 3D printed, that has yet to be confirmed. However, he has been very open about the fact that the texture in the center of the dial is crafted from sterling silver using a technique he stumbled upon by accident while studying to become a jeweller. That technique is known within the jewellery industry as reticulation and involves removing the copper content from the surface of sterling silver, or other precious metal alloy, and then proceeding to melt the core of the metal without melting the surface. As the surface is now pure precious metal and has a higher melting point than the alloyed metal below it, the liquified material below it deforms the surface as it heats and cools.

The linked video, by Andrew Berry, provides a full walkthrough of the process, from material preparation all the way through to punching out a desired section of the reticulated metal without damaging the texture.