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 overview provides a set of possible frameworks that the ensuing episodes will use interchangeably. Think of this as the Metasode. SHOW NOTES The Mechanical PerspectiveJens Koch's Article in Watch Time about the Rolex DEEPSEA The Social & Cultural Perspectives Allen's Article at Worn & Wound about the Bell & Ross Areonavale 41mm The Historical PerspectiveJack Forester's Article on the Omega Moon Watch 50th Anniversary Edition at Hodinkee The DesignPerspectiveZach Weiss Video Essay on the Christopher Ward C-60 Trident Pro V3 at Worn & Wound