Timepieces

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

The collection · 85 essays

Why Mido Quietly Became One of the Smartest Value Brands

There is a particular kind of watch story that tends to get told loudly. It usually begins with a waiting list, a celebrity…

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over the watch world whenever a collaboration is announced. It is not quite excitement…

There is a particular kind of silence that surrounds an old pilot’s watch. It is not the silence of luxury, the velvet hush…

There is a particular feeling that settles over the watch world when something rare happens, and it has nothing to do with rarity…

The first time I handled a Glashütte Original with any real attention, it was not under the bright theatrical lights of a boutique…

In a watch industry that often moves like a flock of birds, turning in sudden unison whenever the market wind changes, Chronoswiss has…

There is a particular kind of watch brand that seems, on paper, almost impossible to ignore. It has history. It has real watchmaking.…

There is a particular kind of silence that surrounds traditional Swiss watchmaking. You feel it in the language of old manufactures, in the…

For a long time, Christopher Ward existed in the strange half-light of the watch world, the place where brands are known but not…

There is a particular kind of watch that announces itself before it tells the time. It flashes polished bevels under restaurant lights, turns…