Timepieces

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

The collection · 111 essays

Why Glashütte Original Deserves More Respect Outside Germany

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…

There is a particular kind of car person who does not want the loudest thing in the parking lot. He does not want…

There are watch brands that seem to arrive fully dressed for the modern world, polished by marketing departments, sharpened by celebrity wrists, and…

There is a particular kind of collector who does not arrive with trumpets. You do not meet them at the loudest booth of…

There is a particular sound a vintage chronograph makes when it is lifted from a watchmaker’s tray and wound for the first time…