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: Jeff-you did a terrific job describing the interplay between racing
: and Heuers. The book's images are powerful on their own, but I
: hadn't given a lot of thought to the supremacy of the watches
: until your review. In a recent issue of the Atlantic, there is a
: great article, "Is Google making us Stoopid," that
: notes how the invention of the clock changed people's thought
: patterns, as the internet is doing today. I think the pure
: connection between timing and racing back then created a
: comparatively short window--less than a generation--when a
: family of chronographs were manufactured that struck a perfect
: balance between legibility, functionality, and aesthetics.

: As others have pointed out, the only negative about Arno's tour de
: force, is that it leaves us wanting more--more models, more
: details, more history. Who made the cases? Who were the
: designers? How were different variations of the same model
: worked out? What happened during the quartz overlap era?

: After seeing an ad in the current GQ for a Speedmaster, I noted
: that Omega is still producing the watch virtually unchanged. The
: subdials, hands, and markers on the Speedie look almost
: identical to Heuers, which suggests that the original
: manufactureres are still around and producing these components.
: The new Monaco aside (what on earth is wrong with fluted
: pushers?!! Don't they realize that god is in the details??), it
: is strange that TAG-Heuer can't get the formula right and have a
: classics line.

: As you know, I hope that the collecive knowledge of the Forum can
: take Arno's and your work to date and push forward to create a
: collecters reference manual that could be published as an open
: source document and updated frequently. We must have some CAD
: experts out there who have ideas about collaborating on a
: template that could be used for the MOAT reference models.

: I did want to ask whether you deliberately wanted to note
: "hand-wound" towards he end of the article in contrast
: to the automatics.