Swiss made

 I love objects that have a sense of utility. I find them the most beautiful.  I think this is what I find so attractive about watches. Jewellery is dead. It merely adorns the body as a status symbol or object of beauty. Of course there is a certain amount of sentiment one can attach to jewellery but for me it'll always be stagnant. 

Longines Trench watch, 1918

Watches manage to embody first of all my love of utility and secondly my love for the mechanical. Winding my manual watch is one of my great simple pleasures; possibly the finest example of micro engineering in history. Batteries die, my watch is over 50 years old and works as well as the day is was made. And there isn't much now that you'll be able to say the same of in a few years time. Let alone 5 decades. 


The above is an example of a trench watch. Yes thats right, these were worn on the fields of the Somme in the great war. The actual casing hasn't changed much from the pocket watch. The idea of adding a strap was purely out of convenience; Much easier to glaze over your wrist than pull out your cumbersome pocket watch from 3 layers of tweed and risk suffering a shot to the head. So actually more necessity than convenience.