Six years after walking away from a Rolex Milgauss, I wired $9,350 for my first Rolex. The line I thought I had drawn was never just about money. When does buying something you once considered irresponsible become an acknowledgment of how far you've come?
Sometimes you pick a watch because it has meaning. Other times you want to put something on and go.
STROND founder Terry Flores on what it means to make history wearable - and the responsibility that follows when a fragment becomes an object.
A two-tone Rolex waited in a bank vault while Kal’s father wore a Casio. Years later, the watch became something Kal could carry forward.
A watch can be worth more to someone else than it is to you.
What a Parmigiani Fleurier Toric taught me about the difference between admiring a watch and choosing to wear it.