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Insights E19 - Wrist-Presence & The Inelegance of Tool Watches
FromBeyond The Dial
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Nov 11, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Evolutionary theory suggests that we are drawn to certain people and not others based on hardwired aesthetic judgements wrought over some five-million years. Allen suggests that similar hardwired aesthetics are at play when we judge "wrist presence," and goes on to suggest that tool watches categorically fail to achieve this elusive quality. A deep dive into Cartier and Rolex in the early 20th Century shows how very different impulses in creating the wrist watch, the former elegant, the latter not so much.
Released:
Nov 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (77)
Insights E1 - Academic Perspectives on Watches: Host Allen Farmelo discusses various conceptual frameworks that we can use in attempting to understand watches. These include a mechanical perspective, cultural, social, historical, design, phenomenological, and (out on a limb here) New Age. This... by Beyond The Dial