This past weekend, Singapore celebrated its 50th Anniversary of Independence. A small city-state, Singapore’s population is less than 6 million and yet it plays a major role in the global watch economy. I’m often asked where these independent watches are sold, and laymen are always surprised to see Singapore towards the top of the list. Within the niche world of […]

Christian Marclay is a contemporary artist whose best known work, The Clock, is perhaps the greatest clock of the 21st century. Simultaneously a film and a functional clock, it won the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The Clock is a 24 hour long film created from movie clips that somehow announce the time. This is often shots […]

The question I get asked most often by friends who know nothing about watches is, “What makes a watch so expensive?” To answer this, I often compare a watch to a car. My explanation goes something like this: To engineer a car from scratch, the main cost is in the manufacturing and assembly of each part. A great mechanical watch is […]

You may notice there have been some changes around here. Today, I’m excited to announce TickTocking 2.0 (or maybe 3.0…who’s keeping track?). I started TickTocking several years ago as a blog where I could speak candidly about watches and the watch industry. At the time, I was running MB&F North America. I was not beholden to advertisers or other watch […]

Over the weekend, Techcrunch reported that Chrono24 has raised €21 million. This is, of course, a staggering sum for a watch website. Recently we had the Hodinkee merger and raise where I commented that the $3.6 million was actually a very modest number and should allow them to continue to expand while keeping control of the company. Chrono24 has obviously decided on […]

This is a really great, wearable, undervalued watch. Enjoy!

New video of an awesome and rare watch. Enjoy!

This morning, Hodinkee announced that it has merged with Watchville, Kevin Rose’s app, that Kevin will now be CEO of Hodinkee, and that it has raised $3.6 million from a big time team of investors. If you follow this blog at all, you know I primarily write on watches and tech, so this post has me about as excited as […]

Last week, I reposted my video of the JLC Minute Repeater that explains how a minute repeater works. I figured today I would repost an old video I made of an Audemars Piguet Grand Sonnerie where I explain that complication so you can fully understand the difference between the two. Enjoy!

No better piece to show how a Minute Repeater works than the Jaeger le Coultre Master Minute Repeater with its open dial and dial-side mechanism. In this video I do my best to explain it in a way that anyone can understand.