Times Ticking Watch Talk

Times Ticking has been in operation for more than 30 years, since 1982. We have performed watch repair for customers both locally and internationally. If it Ticks! We KNOW it! Our team of watch repair technicians have a combined experience in watchmaking of over 120 years.

A discussion with Jake about staying in our lane and other ideas .

Kinetic watch movements use a power source called a capacitor. Today we talk about the most harmful mistake people make with these watches.

Between Odell Beckam Jr.’s Cleveland Browns debut and Rafael Nadal’s US Open win over the last weekend, Richard Mille has been stealing mainstream headlines.

During the time of the Cold War between America and Russia, Seiko had its own sort of arms race. Having both Suwa and Daini as separate entities of the same brand would become a company-wide attempt to promote healthy competition in design.

Leonardo Da Vinci was a powerful innovator, inventor, and mind in human intellectual history. Much akin to this groundbreaking individual, IWC’s 1985 Da Vinci was a perpetual calendar watch that set a new standard for innovation in watchmaking. 

In today's podcast we talk about the history of the Grand Central Station Clock along with secrets and facts you probably didn't know before. 

Watch complications come in varying degrees of complexity and utility. One particularly handy one—in terms of tracking the date—is the perpetual calendar.

Wristwatch wearing comes with its own nuances of comfort and style. Nowadays, you can get a watch that has a dial the size of a dime—or one that is the size of a softball. So a common question that a lot of jewelry shops and watchmakers receive is, “is this watch the right size for my wrist?”

Watch complications are traditionally a mechanical endeavor. As a way to show off the prowess of a watchmaker, these complexities add a much higher level of value to any piece.

Already household names in their own right, The Office features some pretty popular wristwatch brands too! Though Dunder Mifflin is a fictional company, the characters in the show are wearing very non-fictional timepieces.

From the beginning of his career choice, until his eventual death, Seth Thomas built a brand out of his namesake that would grow to be one of the largest clock brands in U.S. history.

The world of luxury watches is no stranger to picking up popular figures as brand “ambassadors”. In keeping alive this now long-standing tradition in watch marketing, Hublot has picked up a powerful new representative—Nicky Jam.

As we tick off the years of our lives, the phrase “what are they teaching you in school?” becomes more commonly thrown out. With an ever-changing technological world—one that’s fast-paced and digitized—the answer to that age-old question seems to be changing by the day. 

Quentin Tarantino’s latest flick is a nostalgia oriented period piece that cascades a stylistic light on an aged era of American film making. Once Upon a Time’s throwback beauty is reinforced by a masterful wardrobe which includes, you guessed it, wristwatches. 

The Long Now Foundation is currently working on a bold new piece of horological technology. It is a clock known as the Long Now Clock which is inspired by the last 10,000 years of known human history.

Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NYC. This is the place where two time capsules—which are not to be opened until the year 6939—reside. In an effort to preserve vignettes of human language (English—specifically), American culture, and modern technology, these two time capsules were constructed to withstand 5 millenia of burial.

Before beloved film darling Robert Downey Jr. donned the title of Ironman, Timex took up the namesake—and it was a successful venture.

Martha Wittnauer took control of her families company in 1916 when her last surviving brother (Emile) died—becoming the first woman to hold the title of CEO in the history of horology. 

Besides their internal electric use, quartz mineral crystals are also used as protective glass—in industrial use.  On watches, quartz crystals are the most commonly used material for watch “crystals”. 

 As Rolex moved forward with their branding/advertising, they featured a particular number in their date window: 28. Much like the freeing “10:10” hand position on the dial, 28 has garnered its own theories and suppositions.  

 A new technology emerged in the later half of the 20th century that nearly displaced mechanical timekeeping—and was a massive upset to the horological world. This benchmark of engineering was the quartz crystal movement. 

 In 1982, Seiko pulled out a smart watch long before the technology we know today. The Seiko TV Watch—in all of its LCD glory, was one of the more impressive digital wristwatch experiments of the 1980s. 

 We talk about moon phase watches, the history behind it and even how to set one. 

Porting pop culture darlings to simplified racing, platforming, and puzzle-solving games, these Gaming Watches added to the strength and cultural prominence of gaming/personal computing through the 80s and 90s.