The column wheel: how a chronograph decides to start
From the outside a chronograph is simple: press it, it runs; press it, it stops. Inside, though, something has to sequence all of that precisely. The finest solution is a tiny, turret-like wheel.
A watch journal
Learn to read a watch.
Lume is the quiet glow that keeps a dial legible in the dark. This journal does the same for the watches themselves — it makes them legible: the small independent makers, the real histories of the old houses, and the machinery under the dial.
The weekly three
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In Hand
The week's microbrand
One watch from one small maker, taken in hand and looked at for a long time.
Origins
Brand history
Where a house or a reference actually came from — with the facts behind the legend.
Movement
The engineering
The mechanics under the dial, one piece at a time: escapement, chronograph, GMT, hairspring.
Latest
Newest first
It wasn't a Genta: the true story of the Vacheron Constantin 222
The 1970s wave of steel luxury sports watches produced three great names. The third, the Vacheron 222, is the least known, and its story is even more interesting than its name.
Two teachers, one watch, and the nerve to begin
Lorier began as the passion project of two New York teachers. The first piece in Lume is about why anyone starts something of their own: a watch, or a journal like this one.
What this is
No release-day scramble. No hype. Considered pieces, biased toward the object.
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