Hideous Melding Of Mobile Phone, Mechanical Watches, And Painful Design: The Mobiado Professional 105GMT Gold Discovery Phone

What do you get when you try too hard to make a luxury mobile phone that stands out? In fact, what do you get when you try too hard to make just a luxury mobile phone? Most of the time it is some hideous creation that excels at delivering a sub par technological device in [...]

Explaining The aBlogtoRead.com Good Value, Bad Idea, And Seal Of Approval Award System

New feature starting today on aBlogtoRead.com. You’ll begin to see some award icons on select posts. The system is meant to place emphasis on various products, brands, services, events, innovations, etc… that represent one of three ideals. I am going to be selective when it comes to awarding these icons, so just because an article [...]

Marc Ecko Master Of Possibilities Watch Is Master Of Bad Taste: 12 Ways To Look Unrefined

I have decided that Marc Ecko needs to stay out of the watch design world. The newest release from the ‘urban’ themed design appears to be a compromise of tastes. The compromise being, that they could not decide which watch look was the worst, so they included them all. Twelve hideous looking bezel options provide [...]

Jaeger LeCoultre Asks You A Dumb Question; Offers A Nonsense Response

“Hi, how’s it going?”
“Just fine sir, care to view any fine Jaeger LeCoultre timepieces today?”
“Well, I don’t know. What makes these…. Jaeger LeCoultre watches…. better than what I’ve got now?”
(sigh) “Sir… these are what we call, ‘real watches.’ A a Jaeger LeCoultre watch represents an accomplishment combining elegance and discretion with a natural aura of [...]

Experience With the Hamilton Khaki Below Zero Chronograph Watch Reveals A Fatal Flaw

One of the reasons that I like watches so much, is that I appreciate machines, or devices otherwise, that are well engineered to perform some task (well), no matter how simple. This is why we have love for sports cars, high-end audio and visual equipment, and countless other “devices;” because we appreciate the fact that [...]

Customized Vacheron Constantin Quai de l’Ile Collection Makes Me Sigh With Despair At The Sheer Pointlessness Of Message Behind This Watch

Do you recall thinking how dumb it was to combine a toaster oven and a radio? Perhaps it could have some conceivable space saving use; but really, What is the point? To prove it can be done? If you haven’t heard of concept, it stems from the idea of unnecessary convergence products. You see combinations [...]

Aquanautic Manages To Create Hole, Then Fill It With The New Diving Tourbillon Monopusher Chronograph Watch

Today I’m filled with cynicism and Aquanautic is just feeding into it. I really don’t have a problem with brands like Aquanautic that seem to appear from the ether with gaudily appointed watches, but when such pointless models come out assaulting my sense of reason, I am forced to step back a few paces back [...]

Zenith Mega Port Royal Tourbillon Watch: Expensive Answer To Question No One Asked

Say, why don’t they have a jumbo sized square tourbillon watch with cage bars on the crystal? Oh, well Zenith does, and this odd homage to goth time-telling befuddles my sense of association. On the one hand, you have the underpinnings of a high-quality Zenith Port Royal watch. This handsome tank watch is a modern [...]

Concord C1 Chronograph Watch Design Critique: Mistake Of Form Over Function

A good deal of thought goes into the design of most watches. The result must be a blend of attractive visual elements combined with the features necessary for the watch to adequately tell the time. There is no “correct” way to do this, but the skilled designer must take take both the concept of form [...]