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MAKI NG T I M E: THE EMERGENCE OF LOCKE & KING WATCH COMPANY WORDS & PHOTOS BY CHRIS TIESSEN
Have you ever held a quality wristwatch to
It’s time passing by.
your ear? Not a soulless smartwatch, mind you, nor a battery-powered quartz piece.
I’m a sucker for a nice watch. Hardly a day
I’m talking about an honest-to-goodness
goes by that I don’t scour hodinkee.com,
automatic timepiece: the kind of watch whose
or browse at chrono24.com, or break for
internals are filled with delicate gears and
episodes of ‘Talking Watches’ on YouTube. I
tiny jewels and a myriad wound springs that
was more than delighted, then, when I found
charge the thing when its external crown is
out that a new Canadian timepiece company
wound or its internal rotor activated. I swear
was situated smack dab in the middle of Steel
it’s like listening to a miracle. The whirring
Town. And so, on an unseasonably warm
gears. Ticking hands. The layers of most
October morning, I found my way along the
delicate mechanical operations – all adding
six from Guelph to downtown Hamilton to talk
up to the wispiest percussive symphony
watches with Ryan Moran – founder of Locke
you’ve ever heard. Mesmerizing. Emotive.
& King watch company.
Nostalgic. *
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