One of the things that?s always appealed to me about watches and watch collecting is the way that these small objects can evoke particular places and times. If you?re curious about the world, you can learn a lot about it from watches. This often happens through a historical lens – think of the great stories behind vintage watches, both personal and otherwise. But we?re also frequently reminded that there?s a burgeoning enthusiast watch culture all over the world, and creative people from every corner of the globe are doing interesting things right now with a nod toward their own culture and style. Watches allow these enthusiasts, creatives, and entrepreneurs to tell their own unique stories through high craft products meant to last a lifetime, and that?s an incredibly cool thing to consider and embrace.
Delft Watch Works is a new brand that describes itself as ?quintessentially Dutch.? What does that mean, exactly" For brand founders Twan Briels and Michiel Holthinrichs, it means that the brand?s watches are inspired by their own lives in Delft, a city in the Netherlands perhaps best known internationally for being the home of Johannes Vermeer. Today?s Delft is a vibrant college town and tourist destination that?s home to the Delft University of Technology (one of the top schools of its kind in the world, and where the brand?s founders met) and a population of young people that coexist in a city with beautiful, centuries old architecture. The brand?s fi...