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Watch Spa 101

When I was young my father spent every weekend washing and waxing his British racing green Triumph TR-7.  Actually it was a red Volkswagon Rabbit, but keeping it pretty was the next best thing to owning the car he wanted.  When your majority stake in that tech start-up finally pays off, TimeScapeUSA will be happy to curate monthly additions to your collection of fine timepieces.  But until you can be with the watch you love, we advise: Honey, love the one you're with.

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Now available - New Orbita Ercolano Collection

The world’s largest purveyor of luxury watch winders for both automatic and manual wristwatches, LED flashlights and other fine gifts and accessories, ORBITA, has partnered with renowned Italian case maker ERCOLANO, to launch the all-new Ercolano Watch Winder Collection. This exquisite winder collection features five contemporary designs, with and without additional storage space. Ercolano also manufactures and sells deluxe, handcrafted gaming sets, jewelry boxes and other fine accessories. 

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When Condition is All that Matters

Here at TimeScapeUSA, we saw a lot of interest in one of our previous posts, “On Collecting,” and thought that it might be worthwhile to continue the conversation. One of our esteemed local collectors agreed to chat with us via email about a particularly rare find, a new old stock Omega Speedmaster 105.012-65. For the true watch enthusiast, this has all the marks of a good detective story, and it gives us a window into the life of a passionate collector at work.

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What Happens During the Repair of My Watch?

Here at TimeScapeUSA, we pride ourselves on offering a full slate of watch repair services.  As watchmaker and head technician, I am on the most intimate terms with your timepiece during its service journey and best placed to offer guidance and answer questions.  Allow me to illustrate the process.

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Countdown till BaselWorld 2015 - Press Release

BaselWorld Watch & Jewelery Show is a trade show of the international watch and jewelery industry, organized each spring in the city of Basel,Switzerland. The history of the show dates back to 1917 with the opening of the first Schweizer Mustermesse Basel (muba), of which a section was devoted to watches and jewellery. It comprises about 2,100 exhibitors from over 45 countries, including the leading watch and jewelry brands, as well as companies specializing in precious gems. The show attracts over 94,000 visitors.

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On Watch Collecting

To all you collectors out there, you glorious geeks and horological nerds

Oh, to possess a rare and unspolied timepiece is a little bit like fiat currency.  Not because people refer to their dollar bills by individual serial number like they do with their Omegas, but because there's something essentially un-have-able about it.  You just have a hold of a dollar bill – it's the treasury that owns it.  Who owns your rare timepiece?  Not you (if you're smart), because by using it you destroy the essential characteristic that makes it special.  To actually wear one of these objects like a timepiece would be the same as spending a dollar by putting it between two slices of bread and eating it.  No, the collector just has an NOS Speedmaster temporarily, until it gets traded or the collector dies.

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The Two Reasons to Wear a Watch

“What are you going to do when the new Apple Watch comes out?”

Friends, on that fine morning I plan to be at my bench, endeavoring to maintain the level of service and integrity that the clients of TimeScapeUSA have come to expect.  I don't panic every time some over-compensated child prodigy develops an “app” for delivering crowd-sourced Jaeger shots via skateboard, and neither should you. But it might be worth checking, in an age when the kids use phones to tell time, why we still bother wearing watches?  Are the Apple Watch and its ilk really the future of my industry?

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