Do you think of yourself as a Rolex connoisseur? Know all there is to know about the watches and history behind the Crown? If the answer to those questions is “yes”, then you’d better put 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...

Cars, cameras, watches, whatever—I’m pretty certain all of us here have sat down with a fat wallet of imaginary cash and wondered what we’d spend it all on. So, why not make it a million dol...

Whether you like it or not, however you decide to present or carry yourself, there are people observing and secretly assessing your style. And although it isn’t really for us to judge, we th...

We’re not sure if the head designers of Rolex and Tudor ever meet for an occasional chinwag over a cup of coffee and a slice of traditional Swiss nusstorte, but we’d love to be a fly...

We all know that Rolex is a ridiculously sought-after watch brand, but what might not be so well known about the crown is its selection of complicated timepieces. Usually one for more pared-...

In the pantheon of iconic chronographs, a handful are assured of permanent residence, rooted there like sturdy great oak trees. We are of course referring to the usual suspects that have alm...

When the world went into lockdown in 2019, me and many thousands of others did something we’d never done before. We looked up. Scores of people took the opportunity to begin a study of the n...

Picture the scene: you’ve got £10-15,000 to spend—lucky you—you’re looking to buy a watch and you’ve got a soft spot for chronographs. The default choice, requiring another good dollop of lu...

Back in the late 90s, if you had money to burn and wanted a watch that looked like no other, one whose dials made the Rio Carnival look like an Amish funeral, you wore one of two brands: Ala...

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...