Pointless Complication
VelociphilePointless Complication examines mechanical watches and horology between the press release and the timing machine: what brands claim, what movements prove, what pricing exposes, and where luxury brands lose collector belief.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 57 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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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...
Back to the Future: A Quarter of a Century in the Watch Market
35 % discounts to waiting lists and back again
Writing about Walt Odets’ legacy made me reflect on what has shockingly become more than a quarter of a century of collecting (despite ignoring this warning).
The luxury watch secondary market might have stopped falling. Now what?
The latest Morgan Stanley and WatchCharts report contains some good news. Secondary-market prices rose by 1.5% in the second quarter, the fourth consecutive quarterly increase of more than 1%, and 27 of the 35 brands tracked were positive....
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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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