Omega has never been averse to flexing its creative muscles and taking bold design risks—unlike its rival Rolex, which makes only tiny, incremental tweaks to existing models and seems to launch...

There’s no denying that when something is difficult to get hold of you find yourself wanting it even more than before—and this certainly applies to watches too. With brands regularly discontinuing...

You can always find disparity in everything. Take the $9,000 Dacia Sandero and the $2million Bugatti Chiron, for example, a pair of cars that have a price ratio of over two hundred to one. You...

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: Alain...

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 celebrate...

There’s that one thing in every industry that if a company doesn’t make it they’re just leaving money on the table. For car companies it’s the SUV, for speaker companies it’s headphones—and for...

It’s one of the big-hitters in the Rolex line-up, a true alpha watch that hogs the limelight at the biggest auctions and is synonymous with one of the coolest actors that ever lived. But with...

Despite being centuries old, watchmaking still has the capability to surprise even today. Whilst it is fundamentally a celebration of the past, that doesn’t stop watchmakers applying a different...

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 at...

The Calatrava was not only a major milestone for Patek Philippe, it possibly rescued the brand from oblivion at a time when it had hit the financial skids. A simple design inspired by the German...

This is a seminal moment for me. I’ve been around watches for over a decade, some costing many tens if not hundreds of thousands. But not like this. This watch, the limited-edition Richard Mille...

Any one of these five timepieces—from the sporty Royal Oak in rose gold to the pilot-friendly Breitling Chronomat— would be a worthy cornerstone of a collection. They’re some of the most desirable...