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 […]
Luxury Smart Watches
The recent stratospheric rise of the Smart Watch must have been regarded with abject terror in Switzerland. Within the boardrooms of most of the major traditional houses, there will undoubtedly be those who still remember only too well the utter carnage wrought by the Quartz Crisis—being that it ended not that long ago. It would […]
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 […]