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Pieces with room to breathe, written to be read in one sitting with a coffee.
Conversations with the watchmakers, collectors and people shaping the industry.
Considered takes on the watches, people and life
None of it appears on the website. If you want to read it, it's on paper.
Most watch writing online is built for the scroll. Quick takes and release-day reactions. There's a place for that. But some stories don't belong on your phone. The ones that need space and a cup of coffee, not a swipe while you're on the toilet.
SmallSeconds Print is for those stories. Three times a year, we publish a broadsheet newspaper. Long-form essays, opinion pieces, interviews and more. The watches and people that don't get covered enough, told properly with love and care. Printed on real paper, posted to your door, designed to be read and kept.
Virgil Abloh’s (Off-White) ideas around representing objects through thoughtful design of the space that surround them really inspired me to think more about how watch media can be used to communicate.
"If I put this candle in an all-white gallery space, it looks like a piece of art. If I put the same candle in a garage, it looks like a piece of trash. I can either spend my time designing the candle, or I can spend my time designing the room that it sits in." - Virgil Abloh
SmallSeconds in print is the white room that will represent the art of watchmaking like never before. Beautifully designed, meticulously considered. It will be the most beautiful place to read about watches. Period.
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Launched April 2027 and posted worldwide to our subscribers only.
"I started SmallSeconds in 2023 to write about watches the way I talk about them with friends: slowly, with brevity and with passion. Print is the next step. To move away from the algorithmic shackles of online media and feel the metaphorical grass under my feet and paper under my fingers. Yes, a broadsheet gives the story room to breathe that your instagram feed never will, and askes you to be more intentional with your consumption. We all need more friction in our lives, and making you wait, sit down and read on paper is my contribution to that need. I'm making the paper I'd want on my own table and I'd love you to be there for the first one."
Mitch Barber, Founder & Editor
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Issue Nº 01 goes on sale in April 2027. After that, new issues come out every April, August and November.
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