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...

The movements in these watches look so good that it’s almost a crime not to wear them back-to-front. Of course, you wouldn’t be able to tell the time. But you would get to marvel at the mini...

IWC stated that 2022 is “the year of the IWC Top Gun”, but why would the watchmaker make such a claim? Perhaps it’s because it has introduced the new Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Top Gun in ...

Like a puffer fish or the elasticated waistband of a yo-yo dieter, watch case sizes are forever expanding and contracting. A century ago, men wore watches that would today be considered femi...

Oh, how I want an A. Lange & Söhne, and oh, how an A. Lange & Söhne continues to evade me. Flying this close to perfection has its price to pay, and that’s quite literally the price you have...

The chronograph. It’s both accessible and incredible, one of the most complicated mechanisms found in watchmaking and one of the most affordable. The fact that so many manufacturers have the...

It took me a while to work out what on Earth a Miramar was, but a little digging into the eighties excellence that is the Top Gun movie revealed that it is in fact the town the hallowed Stri...

Ten years ago, most people would have associated the word 'ceramic' with potted plants and tea parties. After all, the Greek word that ceramic is derived from—kerameikos—means 'for pottery'....