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Around the Web: Bloomberg – Swiss Exports Hit a Low Not Seen Since the Quartz Crisis

Bloomberg is reporting some bleak news from Switzerland. According to the Federation of the Swiss …
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Around the Web: They Look Like the Emperors’ Clocks. But Are They Real?

The Hall for Ancestral Worship is home to over one thousand historical clocks once owned by Chinese emperors, brought to the Qing and Ming courts …
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Around the Web: “The Brief History of North Korea’s Time Zone”

As transportation and worldwide communication grew in the 19th century, so did the need for a unified method of keeping time. Born of that need …
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Around the Web: “The Olympics’ Never-Ending Struggle to Keep Track of Time”

From the first modern Games in 1896, when a team of judges timed a marathon with a stopwatch, to the ’92 Games, which saw the …
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Around the Web: “Freed From the iPhone, the Apple Watch Finds a Medical Purpose”

If you’re someone who loves mechanical watches, then chances are high that you have strong …
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Around the Web: “Watches from the Soviet Union”

A few weeks back, Blake Rong, one of our contributors, swung by our office to record an episode of The worn&wound Podcast. In it, we …
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Around the Web: Meet Brittany Nichole Cox, Antiquarian Horologist

The world of horology is one of many dichotomies. The opulence of Baselworld and events …
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Around the Web: “Now Seems like a Good Time to Ask What a Smartwatch Is”

In Episode 7 of The worn&wound Podcast, one of our listeners asked us about the Apple Watch and smartwatches in general. It’s no big secret …
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