The Cultural Comeback of Automatic Watches: How They
Survived the Quartz Crisis
Few moments in industrial history hit a single craft this hard. Between the early 1970s and mid-1980s, mechanical watchmaking came closer to disappearing than most people realize. That it survived, eventually finding a stronger footing than before, says something worth understanding about value and what people actually want from the things they wear. Today, we [...]
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