Behind the Lens

One of the hard truths about watch collecting is that for just about all enthusiasts, we can’t buy – or...

It’s good to have friends, and it’s even better when they are watch fanatics! Unlike some other collecting-oriented pursuits, ours...

There’s just something about astronomical complications! For me, the fascination of timekeeping is closely linked with the idea of mindfulness...

Given my recent musings on these pages about the relative roles of rarity and complication in driving the value of...

A year before I was able to sell off several pieces from my collection to afford a Greubel Forsey watch...

One of the great things about watch collecting is that no one can tell you what to buy. If you...

As regular readers know by now, my contributions to Quill & Pad range among “Behind the Lens” photo features of...

As we crawl into the seventh month of virus-driven isolation (at least here in California), I’ll confess that even though...

For this edition of Behind the Lens, I’ve taken a journey back into my archives to bring you a series...

As these things go, Parmigiani Fleurier and I go back a pretty long way. I bought the first of several...