Split Seconds

Performance Watches deliver (1) autonomy, (2) durability, (3) accuracy and (4) legibility of time telling to the owner. Performance Watches need not be 'luxury' watches. PWR also studies the history of watchmaking from about 1960 onwards.

A study in aftermaths: of feeling, of music, of stories we misremember.

Honest about watches

Lessons for decisive leadership under extreme uncertainty.

Adventures: underwater, topside, and in the armchair.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

This is a blog exploring why collectors of luxury items (mainly watches) believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, and how we might do better.

The inside track from Paris by Mouth. Everything you need to know about where to eat in Paris.

The most accessible print watch magazine, also here in digital. https://tinyurl.com/remontoirmag Deep dives and the content you actually care about.

The newsletter for watch collectors. Recs on what to buy (and not to). From a former Hodinkee editor.

Watches are complicated. Learning about them doesn’t have to be.

Pointless Complication examines mechanical watches and horology between the press release and the timing machine: what brands claim, what movements prove, what pricing exposes, and where luxury brands lose collector belief.

I'm Mary Pratt, and my father was the British independent watchmaker Derek Pratt. This newsletter is where I explore his legacy, the wider world of horology, and the things that deserve more time.