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The Escapement the Swiss Said No To: George Daniels and the Co-Axial

In 1999 Omega fitted a genuinely new escapement to a production watch. An Englishman working alone had invented it twenty-five years earlier, and the industry had spent that whole time saying no.

Jul 2, 2026 · 9 min read

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Born on the Western Front: How Louis Cartier Built a Watch From a Tank

In 1917 Louis Cartier looked at the machine tearing across the battlefields of France and saw, of all things, a wristwatch. A century later the Tank is still the most quietly radical thing you can wear.

Jun 24, 2026 · 9 min readRead →

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Drive Carefully, Me: The Rolex That Became the Most Expensive Watch on Earth

Rolex could barely give the Cosmograph Daytona away in the 1960s. Then a movie star wore one, a nickname stuck, and in 2017 his own watch sold for nearly eighteen million dollars.

Jun 12, 2026 · 9 min readRead →

Twice Founded in Glashutte: A. Lange & Sohne and the Watch That Came Back From the Dead

Ferdinand Adolph Lange built a watch industry in a poor Saxon mining town in 1845. A war and a nationalization erased it. In 1990, his great-grandson started again from nothing.

May 29, 2026 · 10 min readRead →

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Twice Founded in Glashutte: A. Lange & Sohne and the Watch That Came Back From the Dead