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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Panther Eclipse: the sensor that needs no adapter - Smartlet

Panther Eclipse: the sensor that needs no adapter

A screenless steel sensor with 18mm native connectors, no subscription and a two-week battery. The cleanest dual-wear partner there is, because nothing sits in between....
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....
The chronograph you never use - Smartlet

The chronograph you never use

The most beloved complication is a stopwatch its owners never start. On pushers, the industry's own admission, and the pulse the wrist used to time...
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...
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