I only know Shinola from the expression “doesn’t know shit from shinola.” My sister-in/-law’s late dad used it. He was born in the 30s so it persisted past WWI.
Really horrifying essay from an editor who left major publications because of the abuse she received from James Bennet, the former NYT Op-Ed editor, who resigned after the Tom Cotton piece. He's starting at the Economist soon. She worked under him at the Atlantic.
I did a little digging and guess that's about Jeffrey Goldberg. Not sure why I hadn't heard about that before, but then the self-regard of the people who work for prestigious publications makes me ill. Even though I still read them, of course.
From the Swiss industry’s perspective, it’s a quartz-powered timepiece small in size and elaborately decorated (with diamonds, of course).
Ask women, however, and the watches they covet and wear often have little in common with what traditionally have been called the ladies’ collections. And their frustration with the trade’s reliance on outdated gender classifications, stoked by decades of sexist marketing campaigns, has reached a boiling point.
That became clear in early February, when Laetitia Hirschy, a watch publicist based in New York and the founder and chief executive of the public relations agency Kaaviar PR, and Suzanne Wong, editor in chief of the Geneva-based watch website WorldTempus, founded Watch Femme, a female-centric community that organizes weekly chats on the social audio app Clubhouse. During the inaugural discussion on Feb. 11, which drew around 60 people, Ms. Wong summed up her exasperation with the industry status quo.
“What is a woman’s watch?” she said. “It is a watch owned by a woman. I don’t see any clearer way to put that.”
The discussion, which ran for more than an hour and a half, lingered on the question of representation, as participants emphasized the disconnect between how the industry speaks to women and how they wish to be addressed.
“Why do men have 16 categories and there’s one tab for women” at brand sites online, asked Joy Corth?sy, artistic director at Idiome, a luxury public relations agency based in Geneva.
Is there a future for watches that are just watches?
I just bought a lovely watch. Timex reproduction of a naval captain's watch, based on the style worn during the Arctic Convoys of WW2. My Grandad was a torpedo loader in the convoys, so it's sort of personal to me, but mainly I liked the box it came in. Grandad lost a finger loading a torpedo when he got it trapped, but he told us he did it biting his nails on the bus and it stopped suddenly.
I got a very posh watch for my 40th. It's a pilot watch and calculates elevation and cross wind and what have you. Took me three weeks to work out which dial was the second hand.
I'm not arsed by smartwatches, but proper, old fashioned watches are great, I think.
Grandad lost a finger loading a torpedo when he got it trapped, but he told us he did it biting his nails on the bus and it stopped suddenly.
The vice principal at my kids' school only has one arm. He tells kids he lost it to a shark, but apparently he lost it while working a summer job on a garbage truck.
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