You may have noticed that there are some themes that run through these posts: British watchmaking; dive watches; smartwatches; cephalopod molluscs. I don’t tend to write about new products or press releases, and I can’t compete with the top watch ‘blogs in terms of coverage, contacts or access. If I write about something, it’s because I *want* to – or rather, it’s because it interests me. It’s a very selfish way to write, I suppose, but then, vanity ‘blogging almost always is.