Academia

Some coffee time in a small town this morning. They have a surprisingly good coffee shop which I discovered a couple of years back and has since become my go to. As for the C6, this one has served me well, and it’s gotten a lot of air miles since picking

Bings new meaning to running out of time.

Thank you my dear Druid friend, for kicking off this Friday…..that is a gorgeous shot of your CB- look at that deeeep blue 💙….I had planned to go get my CB this week but ran out of time … We also ran out Gin (Again) and this time my wife picked up this on

Here's a photographic overview of the 18 variants to date of the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk . As it's often mentioned that a digital display with jumping hours and minutes was not uncommon among pocket watches , I've included three of them at the end (amon

Some of us are huge fans of our alma mater. Ever met a person who liked his alma matter so much that he mentions it almost every time he meets someone new? Some of us even join the Cornell Club, the Yale Club, and the Harvard Club - thank you to the membe

But unlike me, you've had the opportunity to try on all three. I have to ask -- how would you categorize your design sensibilities in general? I'm beginning to really appreciate what the kids these days call 'dark academia' -- that's the 5015 in me. I've

This is my fathers old Jlc. He must have bought it some time in the 70s and wore it every day, so i‘m quite lucky wearing this watch now although the typical 70s design seems to be a little out of time today. It was serviced at Jlc this spring so it

Anecdotes that accompany vintage watches enhance their collecting. I share another rather long one with purists here. Jane (not her real name) is an elderly widow and long time friend and past work-colleague of my partner. Two weeks ago they had lunch tog

Is a wonderfully oddball physicist whose beliefs and work are as against-the-grain relative to contemporary academia as it gets. He believes neither general relativity nor quantum mechanics to be sufficiently accurate theories of the universe. It's going

- First of all, Sorry for the mishap, but had to re-post as I apparently had run out of time (and had forgotten to save the entry). - Thus, all was lost.. Grr.. I‘ll make it simple this time and enter just 4 sets of pics, (with 1 Main Fav) grouped as they