Strappage Evening all. I have been making watch straps in this way for nearly twenty years. Not choosing them from a catalogue, nor treating them as an unimportant addition to a watch, but beginning with the idea that a strap…

I Admit… Evening all, I totally failed to get the Skeptiko online. I like to think that coffee and purpose equals laser-beam focus but, alas, like most people, I get distracted. Instead, I’ve been writing, designing, consolidating and compiling. In…

Giles does a TEDx Evening all, there is quite a lot this week. First, the website has had a major overhaul. New copy, new images, updated navigation, improved structure and a fresh coat of fog. The homepage hero remains untouched.…

Evening all It has been a proper Riverside Store as a store these last couple of weeks. Many visitors and often all at once. Lots of coffee. Obscuras and Skeptikos have left the building on new wrists. Happy people. Obscuras…

A New Limited Edition Release Evening all!  Our Man in Japan has been living with a prototype Artefacts and keeping notes along the way. I won’t bore you with the differences between this and the production model other than to…

A New Limited Edition Release Evening all!  Sightings. This isn’t a diminutive version of the Skeptiko. It was designed in parallel with Artefacts and every component had to work across both case types. Artefacts (Ultem®) is inexplicable, it prefers secret…

The British Watchmakers’ Day is nearly upon us! Evening all! …For my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways,And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low;I’m at home and at ease on a track…

2026 WILL BE EPIC – PARTLY BECAUSE WE START STRONG! Evening all! This year is going to be epic! There is so much going on. How shall we start? With a new cap for all you Pipsters! The Six Pips…

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 –…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

✦ 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…

More on the Skeptiko, The BBC & Graphic Design | No. 576 Evening all! It has been a graphic design week. Just an example of the cards that go in the Woolwich made, stapled boxes that sit atop the watch…

The X-Ray never got a Press Release | No. 575 Starting with an image I was sent by Mr J G this morning. The B6 Deep Blue – Guffee’s Sea Change edition. ‘Tis a handsome thing! All sold out now.…

Six Pips ✦ No 571 Evening all!I love post survey action. Take the data, crunch it, list all the advice, hopes and desires until you have a big list that would please everybody. As we know, this can’t be done,…