Allen takes us on a downhill journey back to his days as a ski-punk while rocking an Explorer II Polar White in Vail, CO. It’s a tale of personal rediscovery aided by a badass tool watch.
E53 – Grokking The Rolex Explorer II While Skiing Vail
Tag: history
E52 – The Quartz Crisis – Part 2 – The Future of the 20th Century
Pedro comes on to discuss his new-found acceptance of some quartz watches, and he and Allen end up discussing the Quartz Crisis from many different angles.
E51 – The Quartz Crisis – Part 1 (with Pedro Mendes)
Pedro comes on to discuss his new-found acceptance of some quartz watches, and he and Allen end up discussing the Quartz Crisis from many different angles.
E50 – 50 Lessons From Allen’s 30-Year Watch Obession
Episode 50 gets a special episode in which Allen spends one minute each on fifty different lessons he’s learned over the past 30 years of being into watches.
E49 – Dear Horology Inc., Enough With All The New Watches!
It’s not just COVID-19, it’s the hundreds of watch brands bombarding us with hundreds of “media worthy events” every year that’s a creating clamorous mess. New watches hit the market every day, and it’s exhausting. The decorum and sanity of a reasonable annual release schedule is long gone, but perhaps it’s time for brands to… Read more »
E48 – Wrist-Presence & The Inelegance of Tool Watches
Evolutionary theory suggests that we are drawn to certain people and not others based on hardwired aesthetic judgements wrought over some five-million years. Allen suggests that similar hardwired aesthetics are at play when we judge “wrist presence,” and goes on to suggest that tool watches categorically fail to achieve this elusive quality. A deep dive… Read more »