About a year ago, I coordinated a watch loan — specifically a Weiss mechanical field watch — for a photo shoot a colleague was working on. He, for all intents and purposes, wasn’t a watch guy, whose ...

There’s something about hand-winding watches that is unbeatable even today. A few clockwise and anti-clockwise winds, and you’re good to go for 12-16 hours. I recently found a vintage hand-winding ...