Hublot chose a turbulent time to enter the watch industry. Founded in 1980 when the quartz crisis was still raging and Swiss watchmakers were melting away like a slice of grilled Emmenthal, ...

As if there aren’t enough important things for a world leader to deal with—climate change, wars, members of their cabinet having illicit affairs—they also have to decide what type of watch t...

Two of the oldest and best-loved watch brands around, Longines and Omega are names that inspire trust, admiration and respect in aficionados everywhere. Frankly, if they were humans you’d ma...

Look on the wrist of an elite footballer when they’re in their civvies and there’s a good chance they’re wearing a Hublot. It’s become as much of a footballing cliché as living in a mock Tud...

The French poet Charles Baudelaire once said that “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”. And something similar could be said for Rolex's outsour...

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...

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...

There are dive watches and there are dive watches. There are a lot of dive watches, in fact. Choosing one isn’t so much a process of evaluating the pros and cons of each, weighing up the str...

Some dive watches can withstand enormous depths, others have lume brighter than the sun and a few even throw a couple of other complications into the mix. Not so the RM 028 from Richard Mill...

The dive watch is unfamiliar to neither Oris nor watchmaking in general, a staple of the industry since the 1950s and a favourite of buyers today. But despite a number of weird and wonderful...

Breguet, Blancpain, Vacheron Constantin; with approaching a millennium of history between them, these three have earned a reputation for the archetypal classic watch, much like this Classiqu...

So, you want a Rolex Submariner. You’ve got your £6,550, and you’re out the door on the way to the shop—but when you get there, you’re told there’s a waiting list. Yet out of the corner of y...