It goes without saying that any “Best of” Audemars Piguet list will be dominated by variations of its hugely popular Royal Oak series. After all, the brand has equipped its seminal flagship ...

Known collectively as the “Holy Trinity” of watchmaking, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin are three of the world’s most prestigious luxury watch brands. Through comple...

I’ve looked at all the watches ever made and I’ve come to a conclusion. There’s one that beats all of them. I present to you the Casio A500WA-1, and here’s five reasons why I think it’s the ...

The words “bargain” and “Rolex” are found together as often as “cordon bleu” and “ketchup”, with even entry-level models costing the price of a decent second-hand car. It’s not as if every R...

The late watch designer Gerald Genta was famed for speaking his mind, especially when it came to his own creations being changed. He was outraged, for example, at how his beloved Royal Oak h...

Looking at the timepieces below, you’d think there’s very little watch wizardry going on beneath their dials. With no extra hour hands, pushers flanking the crown or clusters of subdials, th...

There was a time when the life support machine keeping mechanical wristwatches alive was on the verge of being switched off. People were off-loading their wind-up tickers like a used face-ma...

Back in September 2018 any watch-obsessed Instagrammers scrolling through their morning feed might have choked on their croissant at one of the images that popped up. ...

Complicated timepieces are things of wonder, the product of countless hours of painstaking work by the most experienced top watchmakers from some of the most prestigious brands around. To ce...

The winner of the 2021 GPHG, the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar, demonstrated a combination of highly specialist watchmaking mastery, chief of which was its exceptional thinness a...

Ever wondered if there was a watch that quite simply personified the word “watch”? A timekeeper so pure and simple yet so perfectly judged that it could well be the last one you ever wear? W...

Illustrious, prestigious, refined… there’s no end to the glowing adjectives that get dropped into any discussion around Patek Philippe. Worn by everyone from the Shah of Iran to the Dalai La...