Blog posts from Andy Callan

In many ways, the mechanical watch business at the moment is in a strange place.  For decades now, various emerging technologies have forced the industry to pivot away from its original stance of providing the last word in accurate timekeeping, and focus more or less entirely on its fond history and tradition. However, rather than […]

What is the most you have ever spent on a quartz watch?  I only have a couple in my modest collection. One is a cheap and cheerful Casio diver I picked up for around $200 or so. The other is a TAG Heuer Aquaracer, a popular first ‘good’ watch choice for those just starting out […]

The idea of the wristwatch came hundreds of years after the invention of the pocket watch. Scholars attribute the original example of the latter to Peter Henlein around 1510, and the former to Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1805 or thereabouts. It would take a long time after that for the wristwatch to gain any sort of […]

If you’ve ever wondered, as I haven’t, how Liberace would be telling the time if he were still with us, wonder no more. Back in 2015, two larger than life characters from the high end fashion and elite horology industries got together to show the world just what they were capable of—and the end result […]