A version of this appeared on the RedBar Group’s global website in June 2023. “I thought it might be larger,” says Dr Roger Smith OBE,…
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It’s a song that’s been playing quite a bit over the past few months. That refrain was even referenced by Her Majesty the Queen, in…
London Lectures – 18 July 2019 This article is a version of one that appeared in Antiquarian Horology, Number Three, Volume 40 (September 2019). Lectures…
The deepest parts of the world’s oceans are named for the god of the underworld, Hades. This hadal zone, below 6,000m, includes some of the…
It’s been some time since I published a piece on this ‘blog. In the months since I last wrote an article, much has changed: the…
Nine years ago, in a piece in the BHI’s Horological Journal, Derek Pratt FBHI set out a history of double-wheel escapements. The article encapsulated many…
Nostalgia is generally defined as a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life; a sentimental yearning…
Disclosure: there is no financial relationship between the #watchnerd and Andersen Genève. I paid for my own travel and accommodation during my visit to Geneva in…
Disclosure: there is no financial relationship between the #watchnerd and Time4APint. Sometimes it’s best just to admit when you’re wrong. And I’m almost *always* wrong.…