What do Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin all have in common? Yes, they do make up the top three best watchmakers in the world, but there's something else they share: t...

Forget Area 51, forget the recipe for Coca Cola; the Swiss watch industry holds some of the best-kept secrets in the entire world. In a business worth over £14 billion, image and reputation ...

I've got a bit of a thing for vintage-styled watches with two crowns; Longines' Legend Diver, IWC's Vintage Aquatimer, Jaeger-LeCoultre's Memovox and the oh-so-elegant Tudor Advisor are, to ...

When it comes to market-leading innovation, groundbreaking invention and out-and-out 'Oh my God I want one', Jaeger-LeCoultre and Breguet are among the best of the very best watchmakers in t...

Since the introduction of quartz movements, programmable computers and micro-sensor technology, the mechanical dive watch has become to diving what the horseshoe is to motoring. The day of t...

The Big Screen: where stars are born and epic sagas are told—and that's before you've even stepped out of wardrobe. Whether a watch is a part of the action, or simply a smart sartorial choic...

A mechanical watch is a complex machine, made up of hundreds of tiny parts, intricately engineered to tell the time and remain accurate despite everything thrown its way during usual, daily ...

Peaches and cream. Fish and chips. Cars and watches. These are all things that have gone together beautifully since time immemorial, such perfect combinations that they could be used as a le...

Say 'Audemars Piguet' and the first thing that comes to mind is the Royal Oak - or if you own a pair of faded jeans, the Royal Oak Offshore. As is well-documented, the Royal Oak was Audemars...

Mechanical watches of the twentieth century are highly collectable and stylish items. Often, they will be limited in number, while boasting beautifully engineered movements—they are sophisti...

Watchmaking is as much about style as it is about substance, there's no doubt about it. Whether that style evolves from functionality, as with the Rolex Submariner, or leads the way from the...

Four straight sides, four right angles - it's a recipe for uncool if the colloquialisms of the 1960s are anything to go by, the shape of the box we all strive to break free from. But that's ...