Rocinante Watches

A while back a study was published and making the rounds regarding “inner reading voices”. When you’re reading silently to yourself, how does it register in your brain? Most people, when reading to themselves, have an inner voice reading the words aloud in their brain. Seems it’s most often their own voice, but some people…

A while back, I got set up with Sellita. Full access to anything they make. It’s like a dream come true for a nerdy watchmaker like me. So many possibilities! Recently, a customer asked me about getting a COSC certified watch. I logged in to start spec’ing out the movement, only I couldn’t spec a…

This anecdote comes up pretty frequently when I’m working with clients to spec out their watches. Most of my personal watches get worn on a daily basis, and they take whatever abuse life throws at them. I’ll occasionally catch a doorknob, or knock a watch on the corner of a granite countertop, or I’ll do…

If you’ve read other parts of this site, you probably have a pretty solid idea for where I’m going with this. In the mornings, while I drink coffee and corral my daughter toward school, I read a handful of blogs. One of those blogs recently did a post titled “Are In-House Movements Overrated? Lessons from…

I made a mistake yesterday… I was putting a dial and hands on a movement. Was having issues with a slight tremor. Not something you’d notice unless you’re looking at it under a microscope, but that’s exactly what I was doing. Could have been caffeine. My arm and shoulder were pretty tense. Maybe I should…

Yesterday, I wrote a post about black cases. There was a really cool AI generated “copyright free image of a somewhat generic PVD coated black wristwatch with a plain white background” (that’s not a totally terrible prompt, is it?). Can’t miss it. The image for this post is considerably less MS Paint, but still very…

The lede image is being generated by an AI bot as I type this. It’s taking a while. You’ll see the image before I do from the perspective of this blog post. How’d it turn out? I’m working on a watch for a friend of mine. Super cool skeleton movement cyborg sort of watch. Depending…

Right up front, Rocinante was Don Quixote’s horse. A workhorse that the delusional knight errant believed to be the greatest steed in all of history. Rocinante didn’t start out all that great, but became great (the parallel doesn’t exactly work in that particular aspect, to be honest, but we’ll come back to that momentarily). “Rocin”…

Well! Here we are! And by we, I mean me. It’s just me. Jason. And I guess you, watch enthusiast reading this blog post. This whole Rocinante Watches thing caught me by surprise. Not that it’s not something I want to be doing; I love this stuff! I love talking about watches. I love spec’ing…