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 […]
Tudor at Watches & Wonders 2023
Since they re-entered the fray in earnest back in 2010, Rolex sister brand, Tudor have barely put a foot wrong. Their collection of high-end yet accessibly priced timepieces carry on the original mission laid out by founder Hans Wilsdorf in 1926—to build watches with a quality comparable to Rolex, but costing far less. The Black […]
