A Man & His Watch: Iconic Watches and Stories from the Men Who Wore Them (A Man & His Series Book 1)

by Matt Hranek

Cooking, too, is craftsmanship. Take making a sauce: you can’t measure an ounce of flavor—it doesn’t exist that way. It’s intangible; you can’t dissect it.

it’s craftsmanship until you reach a certain level of complexity. Then it’s artistry.

the style was largely thought of as a timepiece for women. It was not until the Cartier Santos-Dumont that men began equating the wristwatch with exploits of daring and courage, and imbuing them with all manner of romance and nostalgia—a

I like the idea of something that costs $40 that you own, versus something that costs $4,000 that owns you.

I think Autodromo resonates with people because we’re still a tiny company; basically, one guy designing stuff. But if you look back at even the well-known Swiss watch brands, they were much smaller companies back in the fifties and sixties—they didn’t have the level of bureaucracy and layers of marketing people they have now; there wasn’t a disconnect between people’s emotional, intuitive, visceral ideas and the product.

I think we have two choices in life when somebody we love dearly dies. You either close the curtains and take the pills in the bedroom, or you throw the curtains open. You plant flowers. You light candles. And you try to move on. It’s a very gradual process, and a really painful one, but there’s a will to celebrate the person—and a will to celebrate yourself for having survived.

he is a key orchestrator of the classic elegance at the Tower Bar, which he runs “with an iron fist in a velvet glove.”