Journal

Buying guides and plain explanations, written to be useful before a purchase.

Reading a watch dial

Subdials, date windows, indices, hands, tachymeters and lume. What the vocabulary on a watch product page actually refers to.

Cleaning, straps, storage, setting the date safely, batteries and servicing. Plain maintenance advice for steel, leather, fabric…

Both keep time; they ask different things of you. The honest trade-offs between a battery movement and a self-winding mechanical…

Case diameter is the number that decides whether a watch looks right on you. How to measure your wrist, what the figure does and…