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Behind Kronos

Our razor is the result of a lot of decisions: what materials to use, what to cut, what problems were worth solving. Here we explain our reasoning. Design notes, brand stories, and a few opinions about how shaving got this complicated.

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The Part That's Meant to Go

A few times a month you change a blade, and nothing else. On the one part of a razor that is meant to be thrown away, and the honesty in...

The Part That's Meant to Go

A few times a month you change a blade, and nothing else. On the one part of a razor that is meant to be thrown away, and the honesty in...

What We Used to Refill

A milk bottle went back to the step each evening, refilled for years. On the objects once built to outlive their contents, and the quiet habit we lost.

What We Used to Refill

A milk bottle went back to the step each evening, refilled for years. On the objects once built to outlive their contents, and the quiet habit we lost.

The Weight of It

A disposable razor weighs almost nothing. Hold a brass one and you feel it before the first stroke, and the whole shave slows down.

The Weight of It

A disposable razor weighs almost nothing. Hold a brass one and you feel it before the first stroke, and the whole shave slows down.

Everything We Left Out

Somewhere in the last century, the razor learned to count. We went the other way, and left almost everything out.

Everything We Left Out

Somewhere in the last century, the razor learned to count. We went the other way, and left almost everything out.

With the Grain

Hair does not grow straight. Learning to read the grain of your own face is the whole craft of the shave, and the part no product can do for you.

With the Grain

Hair does not grow straight. Learning to read the grain of your own face is the whole craft of the shave, and the part no product can do for you.

The Lather Is the Point

France gave the shave its brush in the 1750s. A century of convenience deleted it. Why the lather is the one slow step worth keeping.

The Lather Is the Point

France gave the shave its brush in the 1750s. A century of convenience deleted it. Why the lather is the one slow step worth keeping.