Ever thought to yourself, “I wish a high-end, historic watchmaker would just make a really top-drawer, beautiful watch with an incredible, chronometer-rated in-house movement that I could bu...

We all know the story of how the big three got their sports watches, don’t we? All designed by the same guy, Gérald Genta, in the 1970s? Well that’s not exactly true—at least not for the Vac...

The founding of an illustrious watchmaker is most often regarded with high esteem and much celebration, being the singular moment that turned decades and even centuries into a journey of dis...

If you’ve been around watches long enough, you’ll be familiar with the term “finishing”. That’s where you’ve made the thing, but you just want to give it a last little touch up to make it lo...

You may know the moon best as a big rock that hangs in the night sky, but far from being a useless pebble, it actually offers a symbiotic relationship not only with the Earth itself, but the...

If you’re wondering, “Why does this guy talk about Rolex so much?”, I’ll tell you. The presence of Rolex outweighs that of Omega, TAG Heuer and Breitling combined. It is the one brand you ca...

If you’ve not heard of the watchmakers Frederique Constant and Patek Philippe, I’ve got a challenge for you. If you have, pretend you haven’t and join along anyway. These two watches, both r...

It’s not often it can wholeheartedly be said that something costing £3,000 can be markedly better than an equivalent worth a whopping £60,000, but in the case of the Tudor Heritage Chronogra...

Never mind the movement, how about the bit we spend the majority of our time looking at when it comes to our watches—I am of course talking about the dial. With such prestige given to the wh...

When you’ve got something good, you want to hang on to it, and the 39mm Oyster Perpetual from Rolex was something very, very good. So, naturally, Rolex threw it away. Let’s try and figure ou...

English watchmaker Bremont isn’t new to the world of limited editions—in fact, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of its “Iconic Limited-Edition Series”. From the Howard Hughes Spruce Goose—try...

Last time, we discovered how the partnership of Edmond Jaeger and Jacques-David LeCoultre would form to bring cutting-edge design and manufacture together in the shape of the world’s thinnes...