1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (729+ words) Last fall, I was having dinner at a Thai place on the Lower East Side, and stopped to compliment a 1016 I thought I saw on someone’s wrist. As I began my sentence, I looked down and realized the guy was…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (436+ words) Watchlist: A couple quick picks from eBay. Links below for paid subs only. Harvard clamshell chronograph, for those of you who “went to college in Cambridge”. Uneven dial patina, but sharp case. Clamshell cases are the first real waterproof chronographs…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1241+ words) 📆 Happy World Emoji Day. Look at that calendar emoji, and you’ll get why. In today’s newsletter: I filled out a MoonSwatch 1969 application so you don’t have to. The real story behind Walt Odets’ famous Explorer review. A map to Unpolished’s…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (724+ words) I’ve been writing about watches for the better part of a decade. This all started as a newsletter—the first time I hit send, it went to 51 people. Eventually I became an editor at Hodinkee, then I launched Unpolished in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1850+ words) In today’s email: The Swiss don’t know how to name their conglomerates; your chance at a nice Longines 13ZN; William Massena on why “it’s much easier to sell a watch at $100k than 10 watches at $10,000.” 📆 I hope to see many of you…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (1671+ words) Before we get to the story of American watchmaking as a story of the American spirit—good, bad, and always enterprising: 🏷️ Free shipping for everyone else in the U.S.: All our Leather and Canvas Straps are made and stitched…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (820+ words) The Ming Polymesh bracelet is as impressive and trippy as everyone says. Comfortable. An irresistible urge to stroke it in a manner usually reserved for matters more sensual. It looks and moves like a textile strap, but has the weight…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1621+ words) Walking into Artifact New York is like entering a museum without any guide or placards. There’s a sense that all 3,000+ pieces in its archive have been thoughtfully chosen by co-founder Hugh Mo Jr. But for most of us who don’t…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (948+ words) When someone asks me about a new watch, I often say something like, yes, that is a nice watch. But then I whisper, as if I don’t want the ghost of Hans Wilsdorf to hear me: But you should probably…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1246+ words) I was in Michigan last week and came home to a pile of packages that would suggest a low-level problem with frivolous spending. But buried in the heap of one man’s trash was a thin book set I’ve been hunting…...