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Djask, a small port in Iran, once belonged on a pilot’s watch. Planes stopped there on the way from Europe to Asia. Tony Traina sets a 1939 Flying Officer beside its revival and asks what the cities on each dial tell us about the person wearing it.
One owner remembers the Gallet Multichron his father bought in 1970. Read the exchange
Old photographs put a Seiko diver on the Hawaiian lifeguard’s wrist. Henry Black follows Aikau from the beach to the voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa, and is careful about how much of the watch those photographs can identify.
A serving diver recalls the trouble he took to get an issued CWC in 2023. He also organised a separate Omega order for members of his branch. His account explains how two watches worn by the same divers came to mean different things.
Charlie Dunne borrowed a Rolex 5512 for the drive home at Thanksgiving. When he returned, Eric Wind told him to keep it. Ben Clymer sits down with the two vintage dealers to see what else they’ve kept, as their book on vintage watches comes out.
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In Sainte-Croix, Pinaud shows Tan the lathe, milling machine and machine for making his cutting tools he used for his first watch. Later he explains why he’ll abandon a beautiful finish if he can’t make it come out the same way twice.
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In a Saxon machine shop one machine turns a wheel blank and another cuts its teeth. When it comes to the sunburst on the winding wheels, a worker uses paste and the pressure of a hand. Traina photographs each step.
A Nomos owner paused between paragraphs to look at the movement in their own Worldtimer. Read the exchange
One movement drives the hours and minutes on Louis Erard and Vianney Halter’s new watch. Another takes care of seconds. Su asks why you can’t just set a second time zone, and gets an unusually candid answer about two mechanisms drifting apart.
Architect Sergio Godoy Di Renzo gave his first travel watch an elliptical bezel and little cylinders where the case meets the bracelet. Stockton’s side view makes sense of a silhouette that is hard to read head-on.
With the Mirage 38 Miroir on his wrist, Peshkov reads the hours from a pattern engraved on the gold movement. An exposed wheel does the job of the missing seconds hand. You can see at a glance whether the watch is running.
Turn the Kiwame Yane sideways in the photographs and the case slopes like a roof. Turn it over and you find the rafters. De Groot reads the architecture from the release images and leaves the question of wrist fit open.