Here's a special treat for, well, all of us as the consistently excellent "Slow Mo Guys" Youtube channel just recently published a brand new video in which Gavin uses a selection of special optics (think microscope lenses) to offer a literal inside look at the inner workings of a mechanical watch. There's macro, and then…
In partnership with UBS, we hosted a get-together and series of talks in New York City called "House of Craft." The event featured a who's who of watch-world luminaries, including industry legend Jean-Claude Biver, actor Keegan Allen, chef Alton Brown, AP CEO of the Americas Ginny Wright, actor Daniel Dae Kim, journalist Jay Fielden, independent…
The Horological Society of New York (HSNY), America's oldest watchmaking guild, founded in 1866, announces today "Early American Pocket Watches," a revolutionary exhibit showcasing a collection of pocket watches that helped shape the history of timekeeping in early America. The exhibit officially opens on January 9 and will be on display through December 2025.
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During Watches and Wonders 2023, Oris came out of nowhere and released a wild and unabashedly green collaboration with The Muppets in the Oris ProPilot X Kermit Edition. Its success was in its restraint, and we saw a new bright green dial introduced with the Kermit Edition. Most importantly, the…
This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written HSNY's librarians. Today's post was jointly written by Dr. Miranda Marraccini and St John Karp.
Happy New Year from the Horological Society of New York's Jost Bürgi Research Library! At the end of December, as a light snow fell over our…
Last August, at Geneva Watch Days, a watch came out that has seldom left my head since its – and the brand's – own inception. That watch is the Albishorn x Massena LAB Maxigraph. A bold choice of strategy on behalf of Albishorn to have its first release be a collaboration rather than a standalone…
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Eight years after stepping away from his last eponymous brand, Speake-Marin, and three years after starting PS Horology, Peter Speake has just announced his first model, the Japanese-inspired Tsuba Blue and Japanese/Vietnamese-inspired Tsuba Dong Son. If you don't know Speake, you should. In addition to his work at Speake-Marin, he…