Content Tagged “watches”

• Mikko’s SMP

  Mikko Hyppönen, famed IT security researcher and longtime head of research at F-Secure, has been wearing an Omega Seamaster Professional original blue wave dial “Bond Watch” as a daily driver for 25 years now. His is a few years ahead of mine and the full-size version, and he’s rocking the original bracelet, but he’s basically my brother-in-watch. And, unsurprisingly, the man who coined Hyppönen's Law of IoT Security (“whenever an appliance is described as being ‘smart’, it is vulnerable”) likes his mechanical watch for the same reason I like mine, too:

  I’ve been carrying the same watch for 25 years. It’s an Omega Seamaster Professional. This is not a smartwatch. No wifi, no bluetooth, no chipset. Can’t be hacked.

  Mikko Hyppönen’s Omega Seamaster Professional (Photo: Mikko Hyppönen)

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• The Watchmaker’s Four

  Did you ever notice that most wristwatches that use Roman numerals use IIII instead of the more common IV as the number four hour indicator? Did you ever, like myself, wonder why this is? This way of writing the number four is called “the watchmaker’s four”, apparently. And nobody knows where exactly this tradition originated.

  What I found is that there are many stories about where the “IIII” on watch dials comes from. None of them, however, have been confirmed by anyone. It’s probably a combination of all those stories together.

  I found that to be an interesting read. Now me, personally, I prefer cleaner and more functional designs like classic dive watch baton markers or the most stylish combination, the dot-and-baton design of the Seamaster Professional:

  

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