Timepieces

Close reading of individual watches — movements, design languages, and the decisions behind them.

All Essays

Timepieces · Jun 2026

The Curious Survival Story of Corum

There is a certain kind of watch brand that survives because it becomes inevitable. It builds a shape or a movement or…

Timepieces · Jun 2026

How Yema Tried to Rebuild Its Legacy

There was a time when the name Yema seemed to belong not merely to a watch dial, but to a particular French…

Timepieces · Jun 2026

How Maurice Lacroix Found Relevance Again With Younger Collectors

There was a time, not very long ago, when saying “Maurice Lacroix” in a room full of watch people produced a particular…

Timepieces · May 2026

How H. Moser & Cie. Turned Minimalism Into a Statement

There is a particular kind of quiet that doesn’t feel empty. It feels loaded. It sits in the room like a held…

Timepieces · May 2026

How Czapek Became a Serious Independent Again

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a watch fair before the lights switch on. It isn’t silence, exactly—more a…

Timepieces · May 2026

How Baume Tried to Reimagine Mechanical Watch Ownership

In the age of instant gratification, mechanical watches have become a kind of deliberate anachronism: tiny engines you wear on your wrist…

Timepieces · May 2026

How Arnold & Son Builds Watches Few People Truly Understand

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a watch fair in the first hour of the morning. The vitrines are…

Timepieces · May 2026

Zenith El Primero: The High-Beat Chronograph That Changed Everything

In the late 1960s, time itself felt like it was speeding up. Jets stitched continents together in hours. Television shrank wars and…

Timepieces · May 2026

Zenith El Primero: The Beat That Refused to Slow Down

In the late 1960s, time itself seemed to be accelerating. Jetliners stitched continents together in hours, satellites blinked overhead like new stars,…

Timepieces · May 2026

Vacheron Constantin: The Oldest Watch Manufacture and Its Unbroken Legacy

It begins, as so many enduring stories do, not with a roar but with a signature. In Geneva in 1755, a young…