I spent last night looking at cheap vintage watches on eBay. Usually I come up empty – nice things that I don’t necessarily want to spend the asking price on, or broken junk. Turned up some fascinating things in my self-imposed price bracket last night. Expensive watches are nice, but the fun for me is in finding a bargain-priced weird thing I have never seen before that I love. The watch has to say something to me. There’s a terribly beaten-up 80-year-old Swiss watch I have a bid on, just because something about its design spoke to me. And here’s the thing about 80-year-old Swiss watches – they still work.
- Biblical Eating is apparently the new American diet trend
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READING: THE REVOLUTIONISTS, Jason Burke (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Night Tracks
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