It feels good to be back writing about watches after nearly a year away. It has been a busy year of building a non-profit, finishing my undergrad and starting my graduate degree program, studying human rights and genocides, and learning about mining, archeology, and anthropology. It has been a lot of work. Fortunately, watches areContinue reading “Summer 2024 Side-By-Side-By-Side: Fitness/Navigation Watches”
Category Archives: Chronograph
Material Origins, Sustainability, and Watches
As the world’s human population recently surpassed the 8 billion mark, I felt it was a good time to post part of a project I have been working on that concerned the material origins of the components used in mechanical watches. There are a lot of us on the planet, and we consume a lotContinue reading “Material Origins, Sustainability, and Watches”
IWC Top Gun Chronograph: One Year Later
It was a snowy and wet Saturday morning in April when I got the news: my venture into mining would have to stop. I had placed my claim on a developer’s (unmarked and unlocated on any maps) private land. It was an easy mistake to make. The area is surrounded by Bureau of Land ManagementContinue reading “IWC Top Gun Chronograph: One Year Later”
Summer Side-by-Side 2021: IWC Top Gun and Omega Seamaster 300 “No Time to Die”
This years Summer Side-by-Side begins with my growing antipathy towards the unnecessary technological distractions in life. My patience for cellphones, social media, and other superfluous technological devices has regressed to the point of nonexistence and I have been trying everything in my power to get away from them (I am writing this on a computer.Continue reading “Summer Side-by-Side 2021: IWC Top Gun and Omega Seamaster 300 “No Time to Die””
EscapementSV 