The pilot's watch named after a year
A red star, blue hands and a Chinese chronograph with Swiss ancestry. The Sea-Gull 1963 has a more interesting story than its price tag suggests.
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Small makers. An eye for the details.
One watch from one small maker, taken in hand and looked at for a long time.
8 stories
The ten seconds that became a watch company
Jonathan Ferrer did not draw a coffee cup on a dial. He chose ten seconds and built Brew's recognisable watches around them.
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Atelier Wen, and the watch that is proudly Chinese
Two French founders, a guilloché workshop in Henan and a brand that refuses to hide where its watches are made. Atelier Wen is trying to prove that Made in China is not a verdict on quality.
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Baltic, and the watches a father left behind
Etienne Malec lost his father when he was five. At sixteen he opened a suitcase filled with his watches, then turned that inheritance into one of France's best-known microbrands.
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Christopher Ward, and the question of how long a microbrand stays micro
A boat trip on the Thames, a converted chicken shed, and twenty years later a watch that chimes on the hour. Christopher Ward has now outgrown the category it grew up in.
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Kurono Tokyo: when a master decides to become attainable
Hajime Asaoka taught himself watchmaking from a George Daniels book and built Japan's first tourbillon. Then he created a second brand so that his work would not be reserved for millionaires. This is Kurono Tokyo.
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Furlan Marri: from 35 seconds to a tantalum flying saucer
Two friends launched a brand during lockdown that filled its Kickstarter goal in 35 seconds. Four years later they are making a one-off watch in tantalum with a meteorite dial. This is the arc of Furlan Marri.
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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.
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