Why Watch Enthusiasts Love Fountain Pens Too
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This article about fountain pens is written by Samuel Naldi, a friend of the show and founder of Inkstable,
the online magazine on fountain pens. We like his work on Inkstable, and also enjoyed his videos on YouTube about pens (and watches). Therefore, we reached out to him to see if he would be interested in trying to explain why watch enthusiasts love fountain pens too. He was, and here’s his first article on Fratello. Enjoy!
The emotion of a well-crafted timepiece is accurately summarized by a quote from Dan Simmons: “In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.” Is it the watch’s value that makes it so desirable? Or is it having the perfect mechanism to track those seconds that evokes our desire to see time progressing on our wrist?
How 20th century design movements left their mark on the watches we wear today
Startling transformation in watch design came with radical changes in the real world - here we delve into the history of time
19 April 2021 • 5:00am
The pavilion of the Louvre at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in 1925 – the start of art deco
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A timepiece has to at least aim for timelessness – apropos Patek Philippe, there’s no point looking after a watch for the next generation if they are not going to be interested. The tortoise to the fashion world’s hare, brands need to produce watches that will resonate decades into the future and that’s why broader aesthetic and even architectural movements are so influential.
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Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire s column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. This week, we re working with the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie as Media Partner of Watches and Wonders Geneva. Visit Watches and Wonders website for news and video panels daily, and keep checking back here for all the updates you need to know about.
To wind up our week-long coverage of Watches and Wonders Geneva, we focus on some of the best watches to emerge from our favorite brands, representing all aspects of the watch industry from affordable daily beaters to the pinnacle of technical and aesthetic ingenuity. While the pandemic hindered the flow of new watches in 2020, this year’s digital edition showed it did nothing to limit the possibilities. And if anything, it engendered a new sense of the why not, posting playful takes on old favorites, and innovating with a new feeling of optimism. Just what we need right now.
Dezeen promotion: German watchmaker Nomos Glashütte is offering free, personalised engravings on its watches including the pared-back Orion 33 duo in celebration of Valentine s Day.
Orion 33 duo, launched by Nomos Glashütte at Baselworld in 2019, is one of the brand s four watch models designed with smaller faces to suit wearers with slim wrists.
The Valentine s Day offer of complimentary engravings, available with purchases of the watch, allows messages of up to four lines of 22 characters to be inscribed on the back of its stainless steel case.
Nomos Glashütte is offering complimentary engravings for Valentine s Day
As its name suggests, the Orion 33 duo is 33 millimetres in diameter. It has a white silver-plated face, finished without numbers or a sub-seconds dial for a pared-back look.