Allen ponders how watch diameter and wrist circumference became the main measurements of watches when, in fact, those two dimensions hardly matter when it comes to how a watch works on your wrist. He recommends a few different strategies for estimating how a watch will fit. This episode’s listener essay inspires a contemplation of journalistic… Read more »
In this episode, Allen talks with Watch Desk Editor at Gear Patrol Magazine, Oren Hartov. They discuss the ins and outs of working in a bustling news room, the history of Israeli military watches, escaping the Nazis, making music, and a number of fascinating stories about Oren’s family’s watches going back five generations. Latest Podcasts
This introductory episode is a discussion about the various conceptual frameworks that we can use when thinking, writing, and talking about watches. These include mechanical, cultural, social, historical, design, phenomenological perspectives. This overview provides a set of possible frameworks that the ensuing episodes will use interchangeably. Think of this as a Metasode. Latest Podcasts
Your host Allen Farmelo says hello and offers a short introduction and road map to Beyond The Dial. Latest Podcasts