There’s a peculiar sort of magic in the world of watchmaking—a craft so often reduced …
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Storm Clouds on the Horizon The end of the 1960s was a golden time for …
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For most people, the strap is simply the thing that keeps a watch attached to …
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Breitling has always been a name that divides opinion, and for good reason. It’s a …
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Breitling has always been a name that divides opinion, and for good reason. It’s a …
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There’s an almost magnetic quality about Rolex, the kind of presence that makes even the …
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I remember when the rhythm of collecting watches was defined by silence. It wasn’t silence in the literal sense—you could always hear the tick of a balance wheel, the click of a crown winding—but silence in the social sense. Collecting was, more often than not, a solitary pursuit. You could …
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For all the attention lavished on the front of a watch—the dial, the hands, the indices, the complications—there’s a quiet, often overlooked component that carries both the burden and the soul of the timepiece. The caseback, that unassuming surface pressed against the wrist, holds the final word in engineering, the …
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Dubois et fils is a name that carries with it a quiet gravitas, one of those historic Swiss watchmaking houses whose significance is less about marketing flash and more about the enduring resonance of centuries of craftsmanship. The company’s origins trace back to 1785, a year that situates it firmly …
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