Articles
The long version of the content posts. Every piece in the collection has a story that doesn't fit in nine carousel slides. Here it does, and it ends with what my log says about the watch.
The watch Seiko built for the young
I thought my Seiko 5 was a grey watch with a forum nickname. I went looking for the story of the nickname and ended up in the story of the whole line: since 1963, Seiko's answer to a question Swiss watchmaking never cared to ask.
Read →The Aquaracer before the Aquaracer
It was my first Chrono24 purchase, bought blind for the history — a history Heuer itself almost didn’t survive to tell. The 2000 series’ story runs through the quartz crisis and Senna, and ends up still alive in today’s Aquaracer.
Read →Is it the same Seagull from AliExpress?
A follower asked and I answered far too briefly. The ST1901 was born Swiss, became the chronograph of the Chinese air force, and today beats — in an exclusive variant — inside an English watch that is the copy of a copy.
Read →Tradition with modernity
A Swiss hand-wound calibre with more than fifty years on the road, inside twenty-one grams of titanium. The echo/neutra Rivanera, told from the inside and from the outside.
Read →The watch I wear most is a copy
The Laco Augsburg 39 leads my rotation comfortably. It is the modern reproduction of an instrument that, in the original, did not belong to the person wearing it.
Read →Two hundred prototypes and a bathroom window
The G-Shock was engineered to survive a ten-metre drop. Mine has not left its box in over thirty days, and it is the only watch in my collection in that state.
Read →The Junghans max bill is not a Bauhaus watch
The school closed 28 years before the watch existed. The real story involves a factory that was once the world's largest, an anti-Nazi resistance, and an argument about what design should be.
Read →Seiko AGS: the father of Kinetic, and the day I thought mine had died
Seiko caused the quartz crisis in 1969, then spent twenty years trying to fix the problem it had created: the battery.
Read →This comes out of a real log.
Horalog is the logbook that produced every number in these articles. Open access during the beta, free.