Pointless Complication
VelociphileGet independent analysis of mechanical watches once or twice a week to see what brands claim, what movements prove, what pricing exposes, and where luxury brands lose collector belief.
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Does a Good Watch Have to Keep Good Time?
Why mechanical watch accuracy still matters in the age of quartz, and where COSC should fit in modern watchmaking
I was discussing some of this year’s new models with a well-known designer the other evening and somewhere along the way the...
Twelve Greatest Watchmakers of All Time Pt: 1
Part One (of many): Progress to Precision: From Spring Drive to Breguet
If you could invite twelve watchmakers to dinner, alive or dead, who would you choose? Seems a fairly harmless question. Then you start writing down names. At somewher...
Grand Seiko’s Mechanical Rebirth: God’s Hands, Zaratsu and Myth Making
Grand Seiko was rebuilt in the 1990s with precision at its core. Then regulation became God’s Hands, polishing became Zaratsu, and engineering became mythology.
Akira Ohira joined Daini Seikosha in 1970 at the age of fifteen, went through...
Grand Seiko Spring Drive: Akahane's Pointless Marvel
Twenty years on, revisiting the clockwork quartz
When I was small I once modified an old Smiths clock movement so that it would run without an escapement, and I can still remember the little whoooooosh of it, the strange, clean rush of whe...
From Barrel to Balance Wheel
The Going Train and Escapement's Hunger Starves the Balance
The previous article examined how much torque a watch barrel can deliver and what that means for power reserve and balance energy. Here I follow the energy after it leaves the bar...
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Watches as arguments in metal. Independent analysis of mechanical watches and horology, movement architecture, chronometry, product strategy, pricing, and collector belief. Critical, independent, unsponsored
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