Now we can all take a deep breath. The wait is over. It's not a wristwatch, but a pocket watch. And I think it looks interesting. More about the watch here
What do you guys think? My guess is that it will be a huge success and a fun thing to wear strapped to my backpack.
For sure I will buy one
I like the day/date complication. But if there is a cool combo of like a moonphase and day/date, I’d be up for that suggestion.
I know people are usually crazy about Seiko’s and other upcoming micro brands. But I have been obsessed with vintage Ricoh’s for quite sometime now.
The design language this Japanese brand offered ages ago was on another level. Every other day I spot a design that I’ve never seen before. It just blows my mind.
I wish people would really paying attention to vintage micro brands like they pay attention to upcoming new age micro brands now.
I have a little over 50 unique Ricoh’s in my collection by now.
I’ll be posting a few photos in the post for everyone to check out.
Hope I find people who have a common interest in one of my most favourite vintage watch brand.
Kudos!
Found this tiny vintage Timex on eBay and absolutely love it. It’s hilariously small by modern standards and I don’t even care.
It’s a manual wind that still keeps decent time through the day, though the lume seems completely dead now.
Curious about the era these small Timexes came from and whether they’re generally serviceable or considered disposable. Anyone else into tiny vintage watches?
BHI exam D1 this afternoon. Anytime else going?
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Most people don’t actually care about “horology.”
They care about feeling something.
Status. Nostalgia. Taste. Belonging. Hype. Identity.
That’s why a plastic watch collaboration caused more discussion online than half the industry’s “serious” releases combined.
And honestly? That’s not a bad thing.
Because for every hardcore collector calling it “cheap,” there’s someone else wearing their AP x Swatch every single day because it made watches feel exciting for the first time.
No pressure.
No waitlists.
No pretending to understand movement finishing under a loupe.
Just pure “that looks sick, I want one.”
And if we’re being brutally honest…
A collab getting people genuinely passionate about watches is healthier for the hobby than another untouchable safe queen sitting in a vault.
So I’m curious:
Did the AP x Swatch make you more interested in watches or did it make you feel the industry is becoming too hype driven?
And before the purists arrive
Yes, we know it’s not a “real AP.”
I just cant find a proper Spring bar tool on Alix...i tried many but forks are Always too Small or bad quality... The only One Wich is good is the Swiss One ( all Black on pic) with indecent Price...show me your tool !
There are a few astronomical clocks that have north pole-centered maps on them, but none that I am aware of work as world clocks. When viewed from the north, the Earth rotates counterclockwise on its axis, so the clock direction has to be counterclockwise in order for us to be able to tell the time for everywhere on Earth at once.
The 24-hour dial on the Strasbourg astronomical clock (link is to an image on wikipedia) has a north pole-centered map, but since it goes clockwise, it doesn't work as a world clock.
The Münster astronomical clock (wikipedia image) is almost there. It has a north pole-centered map (hard to see behind all the other stuff going on, but it's there) and it goes counterclockwise – but the world map has been mirrored to match the star map! So it doesn't work as a world clock after all.
Jens Olsen's World Clock makes it work on one of its many dials (picture I've taken myself), but shows the map as south pole-centered in order to preserve clockwiseness. This makes it very hard to read, because most of the land mass of Earth is in the northern hemisphere, and it gets smudged out along the circumference. In fact, Jens Olson chose to cut off the map above 60˚ N, I assume to hide the worst part of it.
Can you think of a closer historical precedent for a counterclockwise north pole-centered map clock that lets you tell the time for every place on Earth at once?
The reason I ask is that I would like to find out whether I can reasonably claim originality for this watch face concept I have been working on.
Last XMAS I was taking this watch off, and it slipped and went face down a small bit on my dresser, and the minute hand came off. The watch was and is running. I took to a jeweler, and they informed me the movement needs to be replaced, and they cannot find it anywhere. The watch runs but when you try and adust the time the second hand gets stuck. This is model 8984.
Any ideas or is all hope lost?
Disclosure up front: I built WatchStyleIQ and Caliber, the site in the screenshots. Posting this knowing the sub’s rules and skepticism, so I’ll keep it tight.
I’m a vintage collector — do my own movement work and love nothing more than a good find.
This isn't more AI bullshit. For context on what’s under the hood: 626 hand-verified brands and 2500 hand-curated references seeded into the knowledge base, with movement calibers tied to 97% of them. When it doesn’t recognize something, it flags the uncertainty instead of hallucinating a confident wrong answer.
If it whiffs, screenshot it and roast it in the comments. I’d rather hear it from you than from a paying customer later. If it nails something genuinely hard, I want to know that too, those are the gaps I need to keep filling.
Screenshots are a Birch & Gaydon trench watch, Zenith movement, \~1915-1920, wire-lug pocket-to-wrist conversion, “Land & Water” branding suggesting military/expedition retail. Caliber got it. That’s a fair starting point, not a flex, plenty of you would have nailed it easily.
Throw your gnarliest stuff at it. Service dials passed off as original. Frankens. Recased movements. Obscure pre-war makers. Redials with too-clean lume. American railroad pieces nobody outside the niche knows.
You can try it at watchstyleiq.com. I opened up most of the features for free for this test.
I’m not pretending this replaces a Phillips specialist or the watchmaker you’ve trusted for fifteen years. It’s a starting point for the person who inherited their grandfather’s watch and currently has nowhere to turn that doesn’t feel like a gauntlet.
Tear into it. No defense needed. I’ll be in the comments.
A very subtle shift halfway between solstices and equinoxes, four days out of the year.
From the get go I knew our watch collections needed to keep time and date for solstices and equinoxes, but cross quarters? John Schaeffer, a California pioneer in renewable energy who I worked with for years, suggested adding the cross quarters. Easy, why not?
The turning of the sun, a passage through the seasons, complete the circle.
The YES WorldWatch V7 applies astronomical algorithms to calculate solar and lunar time worldwide based on latitude, longitude, time zone, UTC time and DST system. On the 8 main turning days of solar time it displays a checkered pattern in the outer dial.
The instrument of time to plan your activities with confidence. Know natural time, know man made time, know when.
I’ve been wearing this watch for several years now. Purchased as a milestone bday gift for myself. I had it authenticated and verified as a late 60’s 5500. Unfortunately the handset has been replaced. But it’s comfortable, great conversation piece and it makes me happy. Any expert opinions are appreciated!
Hello all! I wanted to share a fun side project I've been working on for a few weeks. Awhile back I got really interested in the Orloj, the famous astronomical clock in the city center of Prague. It's such a piece of mechanical genius, especially for its time. I spent quite a bit of time studying the way the clock works, what all the different elements of it mean and how the movement is calculated. Even understanding the clock is a really interesting puzzle!
I'm a software developer by trade, so I decided I'd try my hand at making an online simulator. There are already a couple of simulators out there, which were great inspiration for what's possible, as well as good checks against mine. The two that I found are on the older side, so I thought I could improve on the user interface a bit, and use a modern technology for the build. I used a React app for the browser-based simulator, and also built a screensaver version in Swift. I created a standalone NPM package for the calculations themselves, which both the screensaver and the simulator use. Here are the links:
I'm intending the simulator to be a free educational resource. If you're a teacher of some sort and you'd like to use it this way, I'd love to hear what other things might be useful for you (a guided lesson plan, for example). Hope you enjoy!
Hisashige Tanaka was the founder of the company that would become the root of Toshiba, and was an engineer who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era.
Hisashige Tanaka studied astronomy, Onmyōdō (Japanese esoteric cosmology), and calendrical science, and combined this knowledge to create a multi-functional astronomical clock called the "Man-nen jimei-shouaa(Man-nen dokei)."
The six-sided display and celestial sphere work in conjunction to visualize the flow of time, such as seasons and time of day, as caused by the movements of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. Furthermore, once wound, it operates continuously for one year.
The Perpetual Clock has undergone several restorations and is currently on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science.
In preparation for the 2005 Aichi Expo, a national project was implemented to disassemble and investigate the Perpetual Clock and create a replica using current technology for display.
Because it had been stored in a non-functioning state for some time, its original operation was not fully understood, but during this investigation and restoration process, the complex and intricate mechanism of the first-sided split-gear type Japanese clock was revealed.
I got so fascinated that I made an Apple Watch app based on it
It shows:
* traditional Japanese time
* sun / moon movement
* moon phase
* zodiac hour names
* seasonal hour changes
* star map
Wadokei57 was inspired by the 万年時計[まんねんどけい]（man-nen-dokei), an astronomical clock created by Hisashige Tanaka, the founder of Toshiba.
TOSHIBA
https://toshiba-mirai-kagakukan.jp/en/history/toshiba_history/hisashige.htm
Free beta version Wadokei57
https://testflight.apple.com/join/3vyH6nEG
App Store Wadokei57
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wadokei57-astronomical-watch/id6748839654
¡Hola a todos!
Hace poco me hice con un North Edge Tritón (un reloj que por lo que cuesta da muchísimo). El brazalete de acero que trae no está mal, pero su cierre es malísimo y no tiene microajustes, por lo que pedí la correa FKM oficial de la marca para ver si realmente mejoraba lo bastante y le hacía justicia al reloj.
He grabado el proceso de cambio y mis conclusiones tras probarlo unos días. ¿Creéis que el FKM es excesivo para un reloj así o es la combinación perfecta para el verano?
Os dejo el vídeo por si queréis ver cómo queda el combo: https://youtu.be/yXCrM6hN58Q?is=MhcWAaaM9to8plYE
Im currently designing a barrel at the top, descending train movement, with a bottom mounted pallet system. Does anyone have any advice or possible drawbacks? It would also be really helpful if anyone can find a clock with either of these systems that’s been done before I can only find one bottom mounted pallet. Last slide is a screenshot of that clock.
The direction they are taking with their watches is a good one. Taking everything that is expensive and turns it into something affordable. I like that they don't milk the Blue Planet watch and try something new with each launch. The Hunter, with whom I got the chance to play, it looks more expensive than it really is. $499 at the moment. More info about the watch here.
What do you guys think about this one? Hit or Miss?
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