We’re buying — what we pay for, and why.
The cabinet is hungry. Here’s exactly what gets us reaching for the chequebook — and what honestly doesn’t.
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The Journal.
Articles and thoughts on watches, watchmaking and honest condition — written between jobs at the bench.
What would they wear today?
Che, Shackleton and Hillary walk into an AD. Pure conjecture, zero apologies — what three giants would strap on at retail, today.
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The revolutionary’s Rolex — Che, Fidel, and the GMT that saw it all.
Two Marxist revolutionaries, an embarrassment of Swiss luxury tool watches, and the strangest Rolex provenance story ever told.
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Ice on the wrist — watches of the polar hard men.
From the Endurance to unsupported Antarctic crossings — what actually survives on the wrist when the world turns white.
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Who dares wears — watches of the SAS.
From borrowed WWII wristwatches to MilSubs, CWCs and G-Shocks — what the Regiment actually strapped on, decade by decade.
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Why the arrow points up.
Three centuries of the broad arrow, and why we put a government property mark on a watch business.
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What a Watch MOT actually checks.
Five positions, amplitude, beat error and seals — the health check that tells you what your watch needs, and what it doesn’t.
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