From Enlightenment-era escapements to Gilded Age dandies, the pursuit of thinness in watchmaking wasn’t just about design, it was about ambition, culture, and the quiet power of refinement. Someone once told me that history isn’t linear, it’s more like a web. A tangle of interconnected points that don’t always line up chronologically. Ripples echo both...

One of the three new watches from Urban Jürgensen brings to life an ingenious invention created by the late Derek Pratt. The recent relaunch of Urban Jurgensen is nothing if not ambitious. The company launched its first three watches in Los Angeles, under the leadership of Kari Voutilainen and Alex Rosenfield, with the stated ambition...