What Are The Best Personal Analytics Smartwatches?
There's been an amazing amount of rapid developments in smartwatches in the last couple of years or so. In addition to timekeeping and displaying alerts, smartwatches can measure physical activity, monitor pulse rates, skin temperatures and perspiration levels. This new level of intelligence already makes possible functions like pedometers, sleep analysis, calorie consumption and others. Sensors are cheap and trending cheaper, so more functions are on the way. We now have so-called 'personal analytics' which uses these sorts of measurements to let you track and improve health and fitness.The best known smartwatch is the Pebble, a smash success for Kickstarter and shipping now. I have one, as do two others on staff here, so expect a review soon and follow-up articles as well.?However, if you want to track fitness, it's not ready - it has the hardware, but the software has not been completed yet. If they deliver on the promises made during the Kickstarter campaign, I think the Pebble wil

Well-Done Double Retrograde From Pierre DeRoche: New Brand On The Scene
I have to applaud a new brand that releases relatively sober and legible timepieces. The Double Retrograde from the new Swiss watch brand Pierre DeRoche is an obvious "homage" to Gerald Genta, but well done nonetheless; making for a legible watch that strays from the norm.A retrograde watch is one that has a hand that moves along a liner arc. Once it reaches the end of that arc, it simply jumps back to the beginning position. This is as opposed to traditional cyclical nature of watch hands. Retrograde hands are often used to emulate gauge meters, but can serve a very good purpose when it comes to legibility. Being a new twist on analog time telling, a double retrograde would have two such retrograde hands. According the Pierre DeRoche double retrograde have one hand for the hours and another for the minutes. It maintains a traditional cyclical subsidiary dial for the seconds.The Double Retrograde is powered by a Dubois Depraz automatic mechanical movement (one of the fancier names in w

Spotted a Railmaster on Top Gear tonight
Jeremy Clarkson had his on in this weeks Top Gear episode.That's a great looking watch!

Dash of colour, Patek and my socks
Even when stood up is bearable with my aquanaut.

Just bought a brand new Sub
Very happy! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk