Back in 2010, Grand Seiko released the SBGA011—a watch more commonly referred to as the “Snowflake”. The watch gained enormous traction with fans of the Japanese watchmaker—and still to this...

Patek Philippe is through the roof, Vacheron Constantin is following. Collectors are hoovering up anything and everything that has any attachment to high quality, classical watchmaking. Even...

You don’t need twenty-twenty vision to spot that the Bell & Ross BR 05 looks a little bit—well, a lot a bit—like Audemars Piguet’s pivotal Royal Oak. It’s as obvious as the sky being blue, the...

Since its first appearance strapped to the loose end of an arm in 1868, we’ve all become pretty well accustomed to what has been very unimaginatively titled the wristwatch. Even in today’s age...

Watches, despite being such small, inanimate objects, are for me at least a plentiful source of existentialism. Time is, after all, the global currency, its expenditure a terrible forfeit we...

The famous luxury pen manufacturer Montblanc has been making watches since 1997, a far cry from its 114-year existence. How did this happen? Should Montblanc be making watches? Are they any good...

It’s not every day you’d call a £15,000 watch a bargain, but the Jules Audemars Dual Time from Audemars Piguet is the kind of watch that, were you to have £15,000 lying around, you should snap...

In 1969, Zenith released the El Primero—the first integrated automatic chronograph movement. Over the last 52 years, the El Primero has taken many forms—it even made an appearance within the...

For a brief period in 2017, IWC released to the world a collection of 100 watches designated the IW3817, part of a not-so-broad collection featuring the calibre 89800. Technically—and as we all...

I don’t think it’ll cause much shock when I say that the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Chronograph’s looks are an acquired taste. For many I think that would be putting it mildly, and for a few more...

The fine watch business is a serious one. No time for messing about. That is, it seems, unless you’re Corum. So here it is, three reasons why the Corum Bubble Magical 3D Skull is the maddest...

In 2019, H. Moser & Cie. released the Endeavour Minute Repeater Tourbillon—a complicated, yet minimal super-watch. Costing hundreds of thousands of pounds and being limited to just ten... pieces,