I was proudly born in a small, remote village in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, into a family of farmers who had worked the same land for more than ten generations.
I grew up in a place that still feels like something from a dream: impossibly green fields, ancient oak trees, towering eucalyptus, a crystal-clear river, and mountains that end abruptly in cliffs overlooking an immense ocean, where the sea seems to merge with the sky.
And it was while looking at that sky that some of my earliest dreams began.
I remember walking through the fields with my father and stopping to watch the long white contrails left by airplanes high above us. To a child growing up in a small Galician village, those shining dots seemed to belong to another world. I remember telling my father that one day I would be up there, inside one of those steel birds.
Years later, that dream became reality
I felt that same sense of discovering another world the first time I saw a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Suddenly, there was a virtual universe where almost anything seemed possible. I couldn’t have known it then, but that little computer would become my first window into a world of technology that would eventually shape much of my professional life.
And then there was music.
I remember listening to the radio when I was very young, particularly Javier Crespo on Los 40 Principales in A Coruña, broadcasting on 91.0 FM. Music had this extraordinary ability to transport me to places I had never been.
Years later, I had the immense privilege of experiencing that world from the other side. I became a DJ, playing at clubs such as La Perla, Komité and El Bosque, and eventually had the opportunity to collaborate with Javier Crespo himself on radiofórmula programs.
Going from being a kid listening to his voice through an FM radio to actually sharing the world of radio and music with him remains one of those wonderful full-circle moments in my life.
Over the years came records, vinyl, turntables and, much later, digital DJ systems. Technology completely transformed the way we listen to, discover and mix music, but somehow it never managed to eliminate the magic I felt at the beginning.
Aviation followed a similar journey.
The boy who once watched contrails from the fields of Galicia eventually became a jet pilot and instructor before continuing his journey into civil aviation.
Over the years, I have had the privilege of teaching and working with aircraft ncluding the Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Boeing 777 and Airbus A320
Today, alongside my career in technology, I remain actively involved in aviation as a Boeing 737 examiner and instructor on several aircraft types at Pan Am Flight Academy.
There is something particularly meaningful to me about that name.
Today’s Pan Am Flight Academy carries forward part of the extraordinary legacy of Pan American World Airways, an airline that helped define international aviation in the twentieth century. Pan Am also represents one of those fascinating moments when seemingly different worlds intersected: during the 1950s, the needs of pilots rapidly crossing multiple time zones became closely associated with the birth of the Rolex GMT-Master.
Decades after those first dreams, another passion emerged.
WATCHES.
It is never too late to discover something new that can fascinate us.
For me, it was the machine created to measure the most precious — and truly irreplaceable — thing we possess:
OUR TIME
I became fascinated by the engineering. The precision. The heritage. The elegance. The art of making hundreds of tiny mechanical components work together to measure something that, paradoxically, none of us can stop.
But I also discovered something far more human.
Watches can become markers of our own journey around the Sun.
A watch can remind us of a person, a place, an achievement, a birth, a journey, or a particular moment in our lives. Over time, they can stop being simply objects and become small capsules of memory that we carry on our wrists.
Perhaps that is why I fell in love with watches.
Throughout all of this, technology has remained the common thread in my professional life.
TECHNOLOGY, THE CONNECTION POINT
For more than twenty years, I have worked at the forefront of the technology industry, with leading companies including Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Confluent and DXC. Today, I work at Microsoft running Strategic Global Accounts.
I have had the opportunity to experience several generations of technological transformation — from the rise of personal computing and the Internet to cloud computing and, now, artificial intelligence.
And the further technology advances, the more fascinated I become by an apparent contradiction:
we remain deeply attracted to what is human, mechanical and analog.
We fly aircraft controlled by some of the most sophisticated computer systems ever created, yet we continue to value the experience, judgment and intuition of a pilot.
We can carry millions of songs in our pockets, yet we still place a needle onto a vinyl record.
A smartphone synchronized with atomic clocks can tell us the time with vastly greater accuracy, yet we remain fascinated by a mechanical movement quietly beating on our wrist.
That contradiction is, in many ways, why this space exists.
This is not intended to be simply a watch blog, an aviation publication, a music site or a technology journal.
It is a place where I want to bring those passions together and explore how technology has transformed them — and why, despite all that progress, many of the things we value most remain profoundly human.
It is also a place to share experiences, stories, ideas, mistakes, lessons and curiosities collected along a journey that began in a small village in Galicia, looking up at the white trails of airplanes crossing the sky.
Because I still believe something that boy probably already understood:
there is always something new to discover, and it is never too late to dream a new dream.