This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This topic made sense for a single podcast episode but not for a single website article. This is one half of it: manufacturers who spent decades building things for somebody else’s name, then decided they wanted their name on the dial, the hood, or […]
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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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How Luxury Brands Change You For Better or For Worse The term “luxury” can of be interpreted very differently and can vary person to person, even its definition being vague in and of itself, and for each of us ever changing. In my own journey, I believe luxury can be found in watches of over
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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 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. 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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A Solution Without a Problem This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. The deadbeat seconds complication did not start as a luxury feature. It started as a fix. In 1675, English astronomer Richard Towneley introduced the deadbeat escapement to eliminate recoil in precision clocks at the Greenwich Observatory. Recoil created inconsistencies.
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This post accompanies the latest 3DLANES podcast episode discussing DOXA, its origins, its place in dive watch history, and the competitive landscape the brand operates in today. Brief Origin Story DOXA was founded in 1889 in Le Locle, Switzerland by Georges Ducommun. One of 13 children, Ducommun began his watchmaking apprenticeship at the age of
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intro 2025 has been a big year both personally and in watches, especially following last year’s new life updates and watch acquisitions. In that SOTC, we covered the gains and losses of 2024 as well as the first quarter of 2025, showcasing some of the newest additions such as the vintage Casio BP100 all the
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Picture this – California, 2025. A triple digit summer day, I decided to go to Macy’s at my local mall and to check out the Tissot PRX. A watch that has been on my radar ever since it’s release, even more so with my family and friends recently purchasing them I thought maybe it was
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