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...

A high-horology Transformer from Omega’s weirdest era that has no business being this cool. Lately, I’ve been covering what I’d call quirky, weird watches, those overlooked watches, with offbeat designs from decades past. And in my generally auspicious and somewhat whiny way, I use them as examples to talk poetically about how watch design needs...