Evening…
The Obscura – a watch I have been working on for way too many years. In summary, the Obscura is an artefact. Something that if discovered in the undergrowth should probably be left alone, or handed in. It was designed specifically within all the normal design constraints to look less like a conventional watch and more like a timing device.
A limited edition in a Damascus steel case, less wavy and more cellular in texture. Acid and oil finished to achieve a mid contrast matt surface with a texture you can feel. Every detail of this watch is unique, from the lume filled crown to the case back with three smoked sapphire crystals revealing the Obscura’s hand wound movement. An obscure design that could be military or alien… we will never know.
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Schofield Launches a new Wall Clock ✦ Pips No. 586
A huge effort launched! Plus some Luxury Watch straps Evening all! Welcome to the Advent Pips, just one quick message every evening through Advent (if I can hold to it). Tonight we start big! A new Small Wall Clock – the SWC SWC II. It is stealthier, slimmer and quite architectural with its shadowy grooves and rebates. Our last clock was an award winning design and this version features all…
New Art from mr E + Luxury Watch Straps! ✦ Pips No. 585
A huge effort launched! Plus some Luxury Watch straps Evening all! Those who visit the Buoys Club will see a progress chart of the forthcoming stuff we have in manufacture. The Skeptiko recently made a jump to 90% completed. We were waiting on a number of small parts that have been custom made for this watch; an engraved and paint-filled movement holder, case back and printed sapphire crystal, all super…
New Art from mr E + Luxury Watch Straps! ✦ Pips No. 584
A huge effort launched! Plus some Luxury Watch straps Evening all! I am super excited to have finally completed a three-part art series officially called The Monolith. The Buoys Club will get an email shortly – explaining the reason. It is the first new thing for sometime! Plus we take a look at some more luxury watch straps from both Schofield and Sugar Free. For now I can tell you…
Precision watch hands on the Original Obscura ✦ Pips No. 583
Best Lume Watch – Yes it Evening all! Is the Obscura the best lume watch? I think so. The Obscura hour hand – what a way to start the Pips! First off, let’s take in the precision of details. The rhodium plated dial with just the right amount of texture. The zero no longer slashed so it also reads as an O. The black hour hand is so thick because…
All About The Gold Watch Treasure! ✦ Pips No. 582
All About our Gold Watch Evening all! Allow me to tell you about our Gold watch – The Gold Treasure Watch. I don’t want you to pass it by just because it’s you know – gold and shiny. There is more to it. So, we have a couple. You can choose your strap. You can choose what is written on the case back and it now comes in the new…
Schofield News! A lot to say about whats nearly new ✦ Pips No. 581
SCHOFIELD NEWS! SKEPTIKO AND THE MOON Evening all! I think this is Schofield news – I currently have exactly 8 favourite planets and roughly 422 favourite moons, this is one of them. Darya Kawa Mirza’s new composite image of our Moon. Schofield news! Read on as the Pips makes more sense holistically than the above text alone… A membership card to the Sussex Civilian Saucer Group. The text here can…
A Seiko Field Watch? A Gen. Purp. Watch? ✦ Pips No. 580
The Light Field Watch with a Seiko Movement. Some words on our Light watch – a Seiko field watch of sorts… Evening all! I am listening to John Surman – Upon Reflections and reading about Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, an Austrian artist who studied at the Bauhaus. She taught children how to process their emotions through art and saved 4500 drawings done by 660 children from which only 110 survived the Holocaust.…
Who Makes The Coolest Watch Straps?
Schofield & Sugar Free make the coolest watch straps! For sizes that fit the Schofield Light and other non Schofield watches. We have a sister company called Sugar Free. Why Sugar Free – Cool Watch straps (that’s the strap line, not just SEO keyword stuffing :-)? It was a response to demand, it is that simple. There is no great yarn and romance to it. I was asked time and…
This is the best Damascus Watch ever made ✦ PIP No. 578
✦ Damascus Watch magic. the Obscura | No. 578 Evening all! Oh my gosh I have been busy! Most of this Pips is about our Damascus Watch the Obscura but first we need to talk about the website, yes, I know – yawn, which has been updated again. Perhaps this is just default business but for me it feels like nearing the end of a two-week creative project and that’s…