Tim Barber

2 weeks ago | technewstube.com | Tim Barber |Jeremy White |Tim Barber

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Jun 15, 2024 | wired.com | Tim Barber

Equipping a wristwatch with a button to make its display light up can hardly be described as groundbreaking nowadays. Early digital watches were doing that in the 1970s, while rudimentary light-on-demand dials, such as Timex’s celebrated Indiglo system, have been commonplace since the 1990s (and Apple, arguably, has reduced the concept simply to a button-free flick of the wrist). So would you pay $96,300 (£92,400) for a hulking luxury dive watch that pulled a similar trick?

May 1, 2024 | wired.com | Tim Barber

It’s time for retro-plastic watch mania again—or, at least, it is if you’re based in one of just seven cities worldwide, or are prepared to move very fast online. Dropping next week is the reborn TAG Heuer Formula 1, the buoyantly colorful, plastic-cased sports watch that revitalized the Swiss maker in the 1980s, and has become a collector favorite in recent years.

Apr 11, 2024 | technewstube.com | Jeremy White |Tim Barber

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Apr 11, 2024 | wired.com | Jeremy White |Tim Barber

After two years of the kind of exuberance and endeavor that brought a Rolex emoji watch, colored lab-grown diamonds, 3D-printed gold, light-sucking cases, and even a Stormtrooper metaverse watch, 2024's Watches and Wonders—the annual trade show of the international watch and jewelry industry—feels positively tame in comparison. Perhaps this is because big-brand chief executives have acknowledged an increasingly uncertain market. Swiss watch exports are slowing after a record run.