Dear WatchDossier subscribers:

For the past four years, alongside WatchDossier, I have been working on something larger — a book.

Against the Grain: A Cultural History of Independent Watchmaking traces the independent movement from the quartz crisis to the present day, using auteur theory from cinema as a critical framework. Eleven chapters. Close-reading “Cards” of individual watches treated as cultural artefacts. The book I wanted to read and could not find.

The first copies will ship at the beginning of May.

If you would like to reserve a copy, send me an email at sergio.galanti@watchdossier.ch.

SG