This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. I picked three brands for this one: Rolex, Omega, and Ming. Not because they’re my favorites, not because they’re more interesting than anyone else out there, they just happened to be the three that popped into my head when I started thinking about the […]
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This was supposed to be a Collective Horology weekend. I had the trip planned with my wife, hotel booked and everything, and Sunday morning was going to be Morning Motors, the Cars and Coffee that Driving While Awesome puts together. Instead I spent the
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Audi’s CEO, Gernot Dolner, went to an auto show in China in late May and came back with a declaration: the era of the global product is over. That’s a bold statement to make when you run one of the biggest automotive brands on
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. The camera started as a precision artifact. German. Exclusive. Built by hand in the same tradition as Swiss watchmaking, meaning it was expensive, it was serious, and most people couldn’t touch it. Leica, Zeiss, Rollei. That was the holy trinity. And like a fine
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. I got one of those LinkedIn digest emails. You know the ones: “what people are talking about today.” Usually I delete it. This one caught my eye: Honda reports its worst year ever. My first instinct, as a car person, was the obvious stuff.
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Everything is digital now. And I think that is exactly why analog things keep coming back. Think about it. Manual transmission cars are not making a full comeback, but Cars & Coffee never went away. People are still reluctant to call an electric car
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This post is a companion to the 3DLANES podcast episode. I was walking around Windup SF and something happened. It was not about a watch I wanted to buy, not about a brand I hadn’t seen before. It was more of a personal and “business” thought. A “wait, how does any of this make sense?”
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Cosworth started in London in October 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth, both former Lotus men, the company name is literally just their surnames stapled together. COStin. DuckWORTH. Cosworth. Duckworth apparently did not enjoy working at Lotus very much. He left after two
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. IWC was founded in 1868 by an American. An engineer and watchmaker, Florentine Ariosto Jones, at 27 years of age, decided to combine American industrialization techniques with Swiss craftsmanship. As the former manager of E. Howard Watch and Clock Company in Boston, he observed
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Leica was born in Wetzlar, Germany. They built the first 35mm camera. Revenue in 24/25 sits at 596 million Euros, driven primarily by the photo and mobile segments. Six product lines: cameras, sports optics, lifestyle products, watches, projectors, and eyewear. The M System The
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