Collectors and Collecting

—————————————————————————————————–Accessibility and aspiration: It’s not easy to have a single product line that spans all the way from entry-level pieces...

—————————————————————————————————–What makes a case distinctive? As I assembled my personal picks for a sampling of “interesting” watch cases among those...

I was sitting at my breakfast table on the morning of January 18, 2013, preparing to leave for my flight...

Hindsight is 20:20, isn’t it? As I sit here writing at the end of 2021, nothing seems more obvious than...

—————————————————————————————————–Italian flair in a Swiss Made watch The Wyler Vetta Beaux Arts collection’s design language is firmly rooted in its...

—————————————————————————————————–Max bends, I wear: Okay, this one is a bit gratuitous, but I do have a certain affection for the...

—————————————————————————————————–Mechanically, of course, this watch is all about the constant force mechanism itself, and I like that it is prominently...

—————————————————————————————————–I recall being floored by a photo of a prototype 1979 Paul Newman Cosmograph Daytona reference 6263/6265 with a stunning...

Gary Getz, aka GaryG, needs little introduction on Quill & Pad as he has been writing articles about watch collecting,...

—————————————————————————————————–Nonetheless, guitarists have the American Vintage ’62 Stratocaster, shutterbugs have the Leica M6, and fashionistas have the Prada 2005 Re-nylon...