It’s odd to think that there was ever a time when noon didn’t mean the same thing everywhere. Back before trains, when the fastest thing on land was a galloping horse and towns were content to march to the beat of their sundial, local time ruled. If it was noon …
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Before we built instruments, before wheels turned or springs were coiled, time was written above us—in moonlight, in star patterns, in the angle of the sun as it dragged shadows across the earth. Our earliest ancestors weren’t keeping time because they needed a sense of time. They were trying to …
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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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There are watchmakers, and then there are those rare visionaries who redefine what the craft can be. Asaoka is one of the latter. A self-taught Japanese master who rose entirely outside the Swiss ecosystem, Asaoka has not only proven that independent horology can thrive in Japan—he’s carved out a category …
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