The History of your Wristory

This week is all about blue dials: when something works so well it’s hard to change it, but it’s even harder to bring something new to the mix. Frederique Constant reimagines its rectangular model in a Canadian tuxedo, Panerai uses titanium even inside the case with skeletonised blue bridges, and Vacheron Constantin looks at the … ContinuedThe post New releases from Frederique Constant, Panerai, Vacheron Constantin and more appeared first on Time+Tide Watches.

Rock* by Chuck Klosterman I was first acquainted with Klosterman’s work when I was in high school, doing absolutely everything I could to seem cooler than everyone around me. I figured a book called Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto gave me the street cred I was looking for among my Pitchfork-reading, […] The post Watches, Stories, & Gear: A New Chuck Klosterman Book, A Gorilla-Shaped Pencil Sharpener, and the Dumb Phone Argument Continues appeared first on Worn & Wound.

Sector dials as we know them today are a 20th-century development, although the concept has been seen throughout history to separate dial elements into “sectors” for astronomy and science. The aesthetic is often viewed as form following function, but they were popular for scientific and high-accuracy applications in the early 1900s, where separated hours, minutes and seconds […]

DEPLOYANT - The watch magazine for collectors, by collectors Our take on the new Panerai Luminor 42mm PAM01710, PAM01711 and PAM01714, with Singapore pricing and the official technical specifications. The post New: Panerai Luminor 42mm PAM01710, PAM01711 & PAM01714 appeared first on DEPLOYANT.

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