a writer's notebook
Watch shop Hodinkee teamed up with minimalist design house Braun to create the BN0279. The grey 40mm mechanical watch is as simple as it gets, with hints of color calling back to Braun’s alarm clocks from the 70s.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Braun design lately, so it was weird to see this pop up in the feed today. Sadly, there’s only a hundred of them and they’re a grand apiece, which seems quite anti-Braun. Clearly I will covet one of these odd things forever.
Comments closedThe G-SHOCK RANGEMAN GPRH1000: A Watch for the Ultimate Adventurer | Everyday Carry
Weirdly covet this ugly thing.
Comments closed
I needed a cheap, tough watch for garden work, because I’m not wearing a Apple Watch or any of my three nice watches while I’m dealing with dirt and water and whipping branches and tools and swinging an axe.
So, for £30, I picked up a second-hand G-Shock Watch Men’s G-Rescue Black/Red G-7900-1DR off eBay. It came in a bag with no instructions. Took me a minute to reset the time. I have no idea what the big round thing in the top left corner is. The blue thing in the middle is a tide indicator, according to the internet. I just found what purports to be the operation manual site, but it does not work well. (noting this largely for myself)
All I need to know is this: it works in the wet and in the cold and it’s extremely hard to destroy. No more wrestling my phone out of a secure pocket just to see what the time is. Or carefully working out there with an Apple Watch on that buzzes my wrist every couple of minutes.
Also about watches:
