On the wrist

Every watch tells a story. Every strap changes it.

The Smartlet Journal covers watch strap compatibility, modular wearables, and the collector's question that started it all: mechanical watch or smartwatch? Our answer: both.

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What Barbie and LEGO teach us about watch straps - Smartlet

What Barbie and LEGO teach us about watch straps

Barbie, Mr. Potato Head, LEGO and the KitchenAid mixer all sell one platform and parts that keep fitting for decades. A watch can play the...
Smartlet One Classic bracelet holding a mechanical watch on top and a sensor underneath

How to wear a Whoop with a Rolex, on one wrist

The Rolex on top, the Whoop 5.0 or MG underneath, against the skin, on one Smartlet bracelet. Which Rolex fits at which lug width, which...
Can you make an analog watch smart? - Smartlet

Can you make an analog watch smart?

Not from the inside: a mechanical movement has no power for sensors. You can add the smart part next to it. Five ways to do...
Panther Eclipse: the sensor that needs no adapter - Smartlet

Panther Eclipse: the sensor with standard 18mm lugs

A screenless steel sensor with standard 18mm lugs, no subscription and a two-week battery. It takes the same 18mm watch adapter as a watch, so...
The caseback nobody looks at - Smartlet

The caseback nobody looks at

The most personal surface on a watch faces away from the world. It is also, exactly, where the sensor now sits. On engravings, skin and...
Serica 7505 and Apple Watch: the most discreet pairing there is - Smartlet

Serica 7505 and Apple Watch: the most discreet pairing there is

A 35mm field chronometer, 9.6mm thin, with 20mm curved lugs. On paper it is the most discreet watch you can stack a sensor beneath, and...
One watch gets opened, the other gets replaced - Smartlet

One watch gets opened, the other gets replaced

Every few years a watchmaker opens your watch, cleans it and gives it back. Nobody has ever serviced a smartwatch. On repair, replacement and what...
Power reserve, or the art of being left alone - Smartlet

Power reserve, or the art of being left alone

A mechanical watch is designed to survive your neglect. A smartwatch is designed to demand your attention nightly. Two opposite theories of what an object...
Cartier Tank and Apple Watch: the hardest watch to dual-wear, honestly - Smartlet

Cartier Tank and Apple Watch: the hardest watch to dual-wear, honestly

The dress watch is the hardest case for dual-wear, and the Tank is the hardest of the dress watches. Here is the honest answer, including...
The return of the small watch, and what it means for your wrist - Smartlet

The return of the small watch, and what it means for your wrist

Watches are shrinking back to 36 to 38mm, and the number that decides whether one dual-wears is not the diameter you see but the lug...
The G-Shock GST G-Steel and Apple Watch: the self-sufficient wrist - Smartlet

The G-Shock GST G-Steel and Apple Watch: the self-sufficient wrist

Not an heirloom, a fortress. The one G-Shock that seats a pin directly, paired with the one thing even a G-Shock cannot do: read its...
Tissot PRX and Apple Watch: the integrated watch that dual-wears anyway - Smartlet

Tissot PRX and Apple Watch: the integrated watch that dual-wears anyway

The PRX has no standard lugs, so a pin cannot touch it. It dual-wears anyway, through a dedicated adapter. The accessible integrated icon, paired honestly....
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