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Watch History
Slide Rule Watch History: A Calculator Around the Dial
Navitimer and Skyhawk show how a mechanical calculating scale survived the move from cockpit instruments to solar and…
Watch History
Rectangular and Oval Watches: Why Case Shape Became Identity
Reverso, Baignoire and Panthère show how protection, jewellery and a bracelet can each determine the shape of a…
Watch History
High-Precision Quartz: What Grand Seiko 9F Changed
Grand Seiko 9F and Casio Oceanus show two ways to keep a quartz watch accurate, with different priorities…
Watch History
GMT Watch History: From a Rotating Bezel to an Independent Hour Hand
The GMT story is about how watches display time elsewhere and how their owners set them when they…
Watch History
Dress Watch History: How Restraint Changed Shape
Calatrava, Master Control and Patrimony trace three routes to the modern dress watch, with more change than their…
Watch History
Dive Watch Depth Ratings: Seals, Helium and the Modern Case
From the Fifty Fathoms to the modern Planet Ocean and SUB 300T, the case tells a more useful…
Watch History
Bauhaus Watch Design: Influence and the Myth of a Single Style
Tangente, Max Bill and Saxonia Thin show why a spare dial can have very different design roots.
Watch History
Pilot Watch Design: The Jobs Behind the Dial
From luminous hands to a circular calculator, pilot watches reveal several different ways of putting useful information on…
Watch History
G-Shock Durability: The Engineering Behind the Famous Shape
From the 1983 hollow-case concept to the 6900 and Carbon Core Guard, G-Shock developed by balancing impact protection,…
Watch History
Integrated Bracelet Watches: The History Behind the Shape
Integrated bracelets draw on jewellery, steel sports watches and modern interchangeable systems. The details matter more than one…