Value is a tough game in luxury watchmaking. On the one hand, luxury is supposed to be expensive—buying cheap luxury is almost counter intuitive. People are supposed to know what you have is...

Microbrand Baltic might only be a few years old, but it has done a great job at winning over the hearts and wallets of vintage watch lovers everywhere. Riding on the high of its latest relea...

No doubt many of you by now will have heard of the mighty Japanese luxury watch brand Grand Seiko, and no doubt the first interaction you had with the brand was with the highly revered Snowf...

The best of anything is often well out of reach of most people. But that doesn’t mean good and even excellent should be too. Seiko is one brand that gets this, utilising volume and technolog...

If you’ve got the thick end of $200,000 to spend, well—first of all I’d ask who you robbed to get it, and secondly, I’d suggest buying something sensible like property with it. But what if y...

A watch so big it’s got the word “Big” in the title, the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch is one of the brand’s best loved and most popular watches. But it’s origins as a commercially available timekee...

What a Rolex looks like on the outside is no secret. Being the best-selling luxury watchmaker in the world, chances are the Submariner’s visage is familiar to most of the people here—but wha...

You may have seen that I bought myself a new timepiece—check out the review if you haven’t seen it already—and it’s no ordinary watch. It’s a pocket watch, from 1950, from the American railr...

Rewind your brain back to the days of school and remind yourself of that dreadful period post handing in your coursework or taking an exam where you waiting to be graded, to have a one of th...

The sprung balance is a staple of any mechanical watch. Invented in the late 17th century, the sprung balance is—for those that don’t know—a coiled spring attached to a balance wheel. The pa...

Meteorite dials aren’t exactly new; brands have been using them since the late 80s. Rolex has them, Omega has them, Piaget has them, Zenith has them…I think you get the point. So, what makes...

It’s been a few years, but I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought another watch. But this one … this one’s different. It’s not what you’d expect, and for a multitude of reasons. So, without any ...