Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Blokes!!! It’s What’s Inside That Counts

How To Buy Your First $1,000 Watch 
 
   
Ironically, the resurgent popularity of the wristwatch has come about during an era of iPhones-as-pocketwatches and ubiquitous digital time. With technology largely unchanged since the 19th century, mechanical timepieces are vestigial novelties in this modern age, and they provide a nostalgic counterpoint to our gadget-obsessed culture. They also have a human quality, from the hands that make them to the hands that wind them up.

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