When the early 20th century business moguls Henry Graves and James Ward Packard—the Bezos and Musk of their day—competed with each other to own the world’s most complicated watch......

While £1,000 won’t get you the best watch—not by a long shot—it can still get you a good watch, and even a great one. Choose carefully, do the research, and you’ll find something worth hangi...

It's only a matter of time before the title “Watch consultant” regularly appears in the closing credits of TV series, with wardrobe assistants and prop masters becoming increasingly aware th...

Besides being a crack shot, a cold-blooded killer and having a chameleon-like knack for changing appearances, we’d wager that good timing is also one of the requirements of being a successfu...

The White Lotus is a black-comedy drama that explores the lives and antics of a handful of guests staying at an international chain of luxurious hotels of the same name. In series one, our h...

Released in 2024 on Netflix, The Gentlemen sees English aristocrats pitted against ruthless London gangsters, along with a medley of religious fanatics, Irish travellers and an Albanian drug...

In one episode of The Sopranos, ageing old-school mob boss Carmine Lupertazzi reprimands the show’s main character, Tony Soprano, for wearing beachwear at a family barbecue. “A don doesn’t w...

Don Draper, Roger Sterling and the rest of the so called “Mad Men” of the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency influenced a generation of 21st-century males who bought into the impec...

Succession has become one of the most talked-about TV series in recent years with people speculating over who would become the next top dog of family-owned media empire, Waystar Royco. The b...

Since the 17th century Switzerland has been a horological power-house, with almost every leading contemporary luxury watch brand establishing itself in the country between then and the early...

The reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the Glashütte revival led by A.Lange & Sohne. This proud watchmaking town in Saxonia, eastern Germany, had se...

Considering it’s a direct neighbour to the mighty watchmaking giant that is Switzerland, it makes sense that France has a burgeoning watch industry of its own. In fact, the nation’s watchmak...