Showing posts with label Girard-Perregaux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Girard-Perregaux. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2014

Watchmaking: The high-tech world of old-world watches | The Economist

The Economist says the real innovation is in "old-fashioned" mechanical watches... not in quartz watches and not in "smart" watches which are not very innovative -- "most are a mash-up of phone, activity-tracker and music-player". On the other hand, the mechanical watch has now silicon and plenty of it... as well other "innovative" stuff.

Watchmaking: The high-tech world of old-world watches | The Economist


Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Slide Rule Watches

Interesting website on slide rule wristwatches — history, origin, survey, modern slide rule watches, including lots of pictures (if a bit slow to load but there are a lot of them).

Scarface3133 recommends.