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A Rookie's Guide to Watches
Three watches Speeed would like to own one day, each picked for the problem it was invented to solve — plus the historical piece that nearly killed the Swiss industry.
Explorer II
“The Rolex Explorer II has a fixed 24-hour bezel to distinguish day and night in perpetual darkness and daylight, because in polar environments where they wore this watch, the days and the nights last for months.”
Ingenieur
“I want one of these real bad. I want a little one, a gold one, put it on a leather strap. It's a science man watch.”
Reverso
“The JLC Reverso looks like a Cartier Tank, but the case flips around so the crystal doesn't get smashed when you're playing polo.”
- Astron 35SQ
Astron 35SQ
“On Christmas Day, 1969, Japanese watchmaker Seiko would release the Astron 35SQ, the first commercially available quartz watch. The quartz revolution was here — or, as the Swiss called it and still call it today, the quartz crisis.”