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Reservoir Airfight Jet Mark II extends its instrument dial into the bracelet WM Brown and Timex make a two-strap rectangular dress watch

Independent Watchmakers

Farer Barnwell: a titanium pilot’s watch that trades black for bronze and blue Farer Hecla Hunter Green: a twin-crown titanium diver with a 68-hour reserve

Design & innovation

Jiro Katayama: the industrial designer who taught machines to tell time Stop, start, reset: how exceptional chronographs turn elapsed time into design

Watch culture

Made of Ideas: France's Independent Watchmaking Renaissance The In-House Movement Myth: What Are Collectors Really Paying For?

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