Blog posts from Andy Callan
Nomadic Goes From Strength to Strength with the New Turas 914
What a difference two years makes! Regular visitors here may well remember us talking about young start-up brand, Nomadic, based out of Belfast in Northern Ireland. I was able to meet up with founder and CEO Peter McAuley in November of 2021 to talk about his first creation, the Maraí 401, a wonderful, vintage-inspired tool […]
Reef-Furbished—One Aussie Surfer’s Incredible Rolex Find
Every now and again, Rolex’s unparalleled marketing department can afford to take a day off and simply let the product do the talking for them. One such incident occurred recently in Australia, when world-ranked surfer and conservation enthusiast, Matt Cuddihy stumbled upon a Rolex Submariner while on a snorkeling expedition, and just before it was […]
Rolex Decades: The ‘50s Submariner Versus the ‘60s Submariner
Among the many things for which Rolex is world renowned is the agelessness of their watch designs. With most of their heavy hitters taking shape in the 1950s, there has generally been little else to do with them visually over the subsequent decades other than a subtle alteration here and there—put simply, for the most […]
Rolex Decades: The ‘50s Day-Date Versus the ‘60s Day-Date
Rolex’s Day-Date entered the collection in 1956 and has remained the premier offering from the world’s leading watchmaker ever since. Like the Datejust, from which it took over flagship duties upon its release, the Day-Date was a revelation; the first waterproof, automatically winding wristwatch to display the day of the week written out in full. […]