Interview with a watchmaker: Paul Tanner’s Freedom To Exist
Kirsty had trouble finding a watch that she liked that would fit her. They tended to spin on her wrist or slide up her arm. As a designer, she and her husband Paul Tanner worked to create a new watch to solve the problem. With that said, let’s get into the latest installment of our series,…
Introducing the Valachio Avantiam
Valachio is launching their first automatic watch, the Avantiam, with the tag line, ‘classic meets modern.’ So let’s talk a little about what’s classic here. What do you get if you back the Valachio Avantiam on Kickstarter? For starters, it’s an automatic with a double-domed sapphire crystal. We’re already off to a good start. Suppose…
Paying tribute to our past: Homage watches
First off, we need definitions. A replica is a watch that is impersonating another watch, by wearing the branding of the more expensive manufacture. An homage, then, is an unbranded or self-branded watch that may copy or pay tribute to someone else’s design, but does not pretend to be it by wearing a brand belonging…
Review: The Tissot Le Locle Automatique Regulateur, your first fine watch.
Tissot’s story is one of innovation and refinement. Tissot is that little watch house founded in 1853, when a father who fitted gold cases, and his son, a watchmaker, founded the manufacture to make pocketwatches. Since that time, Tissot has made a number of firsts and grown up to be a part of the biggest…
Hands on with the Holland //01
Neonos is a team of four industrial designers, who have come together to make a forged carbon watch housing an automatic movement. Called HOLLAND //01, it’s an interesting fusion of modern and heritage.
Watch Video Rewind for September 11, 2016
Thank you for popping in to visit with us and read this late edition of the Watch Video Rewind. I was having trouble with the site last night, hence the late posting. Yesterday I was chatting with some friends who were amused by the fact that I blog about watches. One of them asked what…
Take these broken wings…
The past few days have been fun here on WWR. We’ve been doing some cool stuff to speed up WordPress – and this issue is not directly related to that process – and I decided, finally, to make us properly SSL compliant. Google dings you on SEO if your site doesn’t have that cute little…
