Sevan Bıçakçı — The Timekeeper
Not all watch books are about movements, calibers, or complications.Some are about time as culture.In this episode of Watches and Politics — Series 3: WatchBooks, I explore Sevan Bıçakçı: The Timekeep...
29 Apr 9min
Roman from The Fifth Wrist - Who Controls Watch Knowledge? Books, Media, and Power
In watchmaking, knowledge is often mistaken for information.But knowledge is slower.It is structured.It accumulates — through books, through research, through conversation.Roman, known as @TimesRomanA...
25 Apr 1h 3min
The Art of Breguet
Before there were icons, before there were independents, before there was modern watchmaking as we understand it — there was Breguet.In this episode of Watches and Politics — Series 3: Watch Books, I ...
22 Apr 9min
Rare Watches — Exploring the World’s Most Exquisite Timepieces
Some watch books explain history.Some explain mechanics.Rare Watches does something different:it maps the upper edge of possibility.In this episode of Watches and Politics — Series 3: Watch Books, I e...
15 Apr 9min
Reverso by Nicholas Foulkes
Some watches become icons because they dominate culture.Others endure because they adapt without losing themselves.The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso is the latter.In this episode of Watches and Politics — ...
8 Apr 9min
Mitch Katz - Who Writes Watch History? Collecting, Taste, and Power
Collectors are often treated as participants in a market.But collecting, at its deepest level, is something else entirely.It is a process of selection, rejection, revision — a way of constructing mean...
4 Apr 52min
A Man and His Watch
Not every important watch book is about innovation, mechanics, or brand power.Some are about people.In this episode of Watches and Politics — Series 3: WatchBooks, I explore A Man and His Watch by Mat...
1 Apr 7min
De Bethune — The Art of Watchmaking
Some watchmakers perfect tradition.Others reject it.De Bethune does something far rarer: it rebuilds tradition from first principles.In this episode of Watches and Politics — Series 3: Watch Books, I ...
25 Mars 10min
