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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How your wrist tells time in the dark, three ways - Smartlet

How your wrist tells time in the dark, three ways

A mechanical watch and a smartwatch solve the same problem, seeing the time in the dark, with three opposite philosophies. Tritium, Super-LumiNova and the screen....
Water resistance, honestly: what 300m really means - Smartlet

Water resistance, honestly: what 300m really means

The depth on your case back is a lab test, not a permission slip. What water resistance ratings actually mean, why they fade, and how...
Which wrist, and why the rule is a fossil - Smartlet

Which wrist, and why the rule is a fossil

You wear your watch on the left because a pocket-watch crown sat at three o'clock a century ago. In an automatic, dual-wear world, that rule...
The screenless sensor: why the purest dual-wear partner has no face - Smartlet

The screenless sensor: why the purest dual-wear partner has no face

The best partner for a mechanical watch is a sensor with no screen at all. On Whoop, the two-faces problem, and why a wearable with...
Does your smartwatch threaten your mechanical watch? - Smartlet

Does your smartwatch threaten your mechanical watch?

The instinct is to keep the electronic thing away from the mechanical one. On magnetism, the physics is reassuring, and the real threats are somewhere...
Grand Seiko Snowflake and Apple Watch, on one wrist - Smartlet

Grand Seiko Snowflake and Apple Watch, on one wrist

The Snowflake is the mechanical watch that got closest to quartz. Pairing it with a sensor should be redundant. Why the most accurate mechanical watch...
What your wrist will measure in 2030, and what it can never be - Smartlet

What your wrist will measure in 2030, and what it can never be

The wearable on your wrist is turning into a medical device. The watch above it is turning into nothing new at all. Why the future...
Duxot Atlantica and Fitbit Charge 6: the working wrist - Smartlet

Duxot Atlantica and Fitbit Charge 6: the working wrist

A nurse on a long shift. An automatic she wears without worry and a tracker that watches her sleep. This pairing belongs to the wrist...
The Squale 1521 and the Apple Watch Ultra: two dive tools - Smartlet

The Squale 1521 and the Apple Watch Ultra: two dive tools

A Swiss dive tool descended from the 1960s and a digital dive computer from this year, on one wrist. Why the pairing is more coherent...
Nobody dives with a dive watch anymore - Smartlet

Nobody dives with a dive watch anymore

The most desired category in watchmaking is built around a job its owners handed to a screen thirty years ago. On the dive watch, the...
Patina versus the algorithm - Smartlet

Patina versus the algorithm

One wrist, two objects aging in opposite directions. One gets better with every scratch; the other just lost software support. On permanence, planned obsolescence, and...
The imprecision premium - Smartlet

The imprecision premium

The most expensive object on a collector's wrist is also the least accurate clock in the room. In the data age, why we pay more...
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