A modern horological exercise in retro-futurism. The original Amida Digitrend watches were the result of a particular confluence of circumstances in the history of watchmaking. When the originals were launched in 1976, they were an attempt to create, in an analog mechanical watch, an experience close to what you might get from the LED display...

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. The genesis of this story was a reaction to a video we put up a month or so ago, the subject of which was debunking myths about water resistance. Among the usual suspects (one of which is the idea that 100 meter resistance...