Purple Is the Colour of the Fastest: A Timing Code Moved Onto a Dial, and the IWC “Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41”
On Formula One timing screens purple means one thing: fastest of anybody in that sector. IWC has taken that code …
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Recently unveiled, newly released watches.
Keeping the Jewel Round the Back: A Jeweller’s Test With a Chronograph, and the Tiffany & Co. “Tiffany Timer”
A chronograph is not an ornament but a measuring instrument; it was born to cut horse races into seconds. When …
The Game Where One Person Knows When It Ends: Football’s Relationship With Time, and the Hublot “Big Bang Reloaded UEFA Champions League”
Football is the game where the clock counts up rather than down and where only one person knows when the …
A Dial Older Than the Earth: The Cooling Rate of an Iron Core, and the Bell & Ross “BR-X5 Meteorite”
The pattern on this dial did not come from a craftsman’s hand. It formed by itself inside a metal that …
When a Printing Accident Becomes an Identity: The Dot Over Ninety, and the Omega “Speedmaster 38”
A small dot on a bezel landed in the wrong place sixty years ago. Collectors turned that error into a …
The Texture of a Grain of Barley: A History of Measurement, and the Longines “Master Collection”
For centuries barley was the smallest standard a human being had; weights and lengths were described by it. Longines has …
The Man Who Measured Forty-Three Thousand Kilometres With His Own Stride: Inō Tadataka and the Edo Purple of the Alpinist
He set out at fifty-five, walked for seventeen years, and mapped the coastline of a country using the length of …
A Stopwatch Five Hundred Kilometres Long: The Runners of the Tōkaidō and Seiko’s Edo Purple
In Edo the length of an hour changed with the season. For the men on the road the only useful …
Two Pushers, a Movement That Never Stops: Laurent Ferrier Sport Traveller
Thirty seven years at Patek Philippe, a podium at Le Mans, and the new calibre LF275.01
The Third Act: Petermann Bédat Reference 1825
The third watch from a two person workshop with two GPHG wins, and for the first time without a complication
A Numeral That Jumps in a Tenth of a Second: The Bremont Terra Nova 38 Jumping Hour Stealth Black
On a night exercise in Snowdonia, on why a jumping hour must never jump slowly.
The Grain of the Stone and the Logic of the Joint: The Atelier Wen Millésime 2025 Perception Xuán
In a joiner's workshop in Shanghai, a conversation about why a four layer pietersite dial does not break.
A Dial Between Two Filters: The MING 29.06 Peepshow
Two polarising filters in a photographic studio, and a dial that reads black, blue or violet depending on where you …
Two Escapements, One Balance: The Bernhard Lederer CIC 39 InVerto Titanium
A chronometer with two escapements in the chronometry room of the Besançon Observatory: constant force, the natural escapement idea and …
Twenty Seconds a Year and Three Hundred Metres: The Grand Seiko Spring Drive U.F.A. Ushio 300 Diver
A diving instructor and a metrologist on the Izu Peninsula discuss a diver's watch that drifts by twenty seconds a …
Colour Fired in Glasgow: anOrdain and the Patience of an Enamel Dial
The Colour of Rock and Sea: The New Generation Longines HydroConquest
The Visible Date: The Tissot Visodate and a Notary's Sense of Time
A Watch on the Rock: The Norqain Wild ONE and a Material That Defies Shock
Colours That Carry Explorers' Names: The Farer Chronographs
The Orange of the Deep: The Doxa SUB 300 and a Diver's Knowledge of Colour
The Blue Beneath the Ice: The Czapek Antarctique Cosmic Blue
The Legend in the Attic: The Zenith Chronomaster Sport and the Secret of the El Primero
