On the wrist

Every watch tells a story. Every strap changes it.

The Smartlet Journal covers watch strap compatibility, modular wearables, and the collector's question that started it all: mechanical watch or smartwatch? Our answer: both.

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Duxot Atlantica and Fitbit Charge 6: the working wrist - Smartlet

Duxot Atlantica and Fitbit Charge 6: the working wrist

A nurse on a long shift. An automatic she wears without worry and a tracker that watches her sleep. This pairing belongs to the wrist...
The Squale 1521 and the Apple Watch Ultra: two dive tools - Smartlet

The Squale 1521 and the Apple Watch Ultra: two dive tools

A Swiss dive tool descended from the 1960s and a digital dive computer from this year, on one wrist. Why the pairing is more coherent...
Nobody dives with a dive watch anymore - Smartlet

Nobody dives with a dive watch anymore

The most desired category in watchmaking is built around a job its owners handed to a screen thirty years ago. On the dive watch, the...
Patina versus the algorithm - Smartlet

Patina versus the algorithm

One wrist, two objects aging in opposite directions. One gets better with every scratch; the other just lost software support. On permanence, planned obsolescence, and...
The imprecision premium - Smartlet

The imprecision premium

The most expensive object on a collector's wrist is also the least accurate clock in the room. In the data age, why we pay more...
How to choose a wearable you can wear with your watch - Smartlet

How to choose a wearable you can wear with your watch

Choosing a wearable is easy until you refuse to give up your mechanical watch. Here is how to pick one that sits with it, not...
The new parent's wrist, and what it carries - Smartlet

The new parent's wrist, and what it carries

Early parenthood takes two things at once: your sleep and your sense of self. One the wearable can show you. The other the watch quietly...
Two clocks, one wrist: the traveler's argument - Smartlet

Two clocks, one wrist: the traveler's argument

Two instruments, two questions. The watch keeps the time you left behind. The wearable keeps the body you travel with. ...
A location, or a structure: the wrist is an architecture, not a slot - Smartlet

A location, or a structure: the wrist is an architecture, not a slot

Ask almost anyone how many things go on a wrist and they will say one. The wrist, in the common imagination, is a slot: a...
The watch you buy once, on purpose: Omega Speedmaster and Whoop MG - Smartlet

The watch you buy once, on purpose: Omega Speedmaster and Whoop MG

Some watches are bought as tools. Some are bought as collections. And some are bought exactly once, deliberately, to mark the fact that a person...
Two ways to find out what time it is - Smartlet

Two ways to find out what time it is

Watch any room of people and you will see two completely different gestures for finding out what time it is. One reaches for a phone...
The one-watch person, once thought extinct - Smartlet

The one-watch person, once thought extinct

There is a Latin phrase that circulates in the quieter corners of the watch world: homo unum horologium, the one-watch person. They own a single...
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