Spending just a couple of days with an Aston Martin is not enough. When it came time to hand over the key – an actual key that you use to turn on the ignition – to the beautiful Stratus White 2016 Aston Martin Vantage GTS, I felt like I’d only just begun to bond with the car.
The purpose of this guide is to help people better understand the culture that designs, manufactures, and sells high-end Swiss timepieces – ideally, in the most lighthearted and non-stuffy of ways. I’ve spent the better part of 15 years looking at the Swiss watch industry from the outside, and most of that time actually working directly with it.
How did watch prices get so high? The number one response from watch enthusiasts seems to be “greed” – though “maximizing profits” would be the politer way to say it. Looking at the recent history of watch industry growth, I don’t see evidence for greed.
So you wanna be a watch industry CEO superstar? Maybe you’d like to know some of the likely attributes the people who run your favorite watch brand may have. If you want to run a watch company or are interested in why I think some of the better brands exist as they do today, then continue reading.
Welcome to the latest installment in our Cost of Entry series. Today, we look at Cartier, and none other than the iconic Tank, in the form of the Cartier Tank Solo XL Automatic, represents the most affordable mechanical men’s watch Cartier offers.
Here is why a lone management consultant in oil & gas from a city with zero horological pedigree has something to offer the readers of aBlogtoWatch: I’m working on launching an attainable watch, made completely by the best Swiss suppliers I can find for the money, and I’m going to share the adventure with you.
This article will take a detailed look at the Temption Cameo watch and review the challenges and inspiration that led to the final results in keeping with the design rules established by Temption.
The Seiko Spring Drive watch movement technology is one of the most unique, ingenious, efficient, and accurate calibers ever designed and is in a class of its own among modern mass produced movements. We will begin with looking at how Spring Drive works for the simple reason that we need a good understanding of how the system functions and is constructed before we can talk about the fascinating story behind it all.
In collaboration with Samsung Mobile and the leading smartwatch watch face platform Facer, aBlogtoWatch is helping to host a design competition for watch dials meant for the Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch.
One of the biggest complaints among watch enthusiasts is that luxury watch prices are too high. The truth is that watch prices and increases thereof depend on which side of the US Dollar you sit on and which economy you live in.