BWC Blog

Making your BWC watch - Engineering, Construction, and Prototyping.

Watchmaking today is an industrialized process no different from automobile manufacturing. It is a complex enterprise that involves specialized ...

Every BWC watch takes a year in the making. Starting with concept and design, prototyping, and production, followed by QC, our teams spend an inor...

In a series of posts over the past few weeks, we discussed the origin of an Indian Air Force inspired watch collection. Work on the MACH 1 c...

It was December 1971, the Bangladesh Liberation Movement in East Pakistan was at its peak. Bangladesh Liberation Movement in East Pakistan was ...

I was -maybe- five years old. I vividly remember sitting on my dad's shoulders trying to peer through the crowds, to get a glimpse of the Indian...

Until the first world war wristwatches were unheard of, everyone used pocket-watches. This meant that the very first pilots had to fumble and ta...

Can you clarify what you mean by a 'fine-watch company?'. Asked someone we had just met. We went about explaining what a fine watches are, why the...

Mercy and I have always prioritized travel over other things. The ones in our close circle is very familiar with our meanderings around the worl...

Sameer wouldn't stop, he stalked us through the shop floor, threw jargon at us: Reverse Osmosis, Mineral Boosters, Ultraviolet Protection, he trie...

What's the first thing that stands out at a Teppanyaki restaurant? Showmanship. Yep, that is right. But if you look beyond the veil of smoking hot...

Quartz movement, Mechanical movement, Sapphire Crystal, GMT, Perpetual calendar. If you know what these terms mean, you have a relatively basic un...

Did you know that the first-ever refrigerated minibar in a hotel was in the mid-1970s at the Hong Kong Hilton? Inspired by a mini-bottle of alcoho...

Jayavelu was a short, burly man, one of few words. As a kid growing up in Chennai in the eighties, I saw him a few times during the summer and nev...