The seventies was a decade of catastrophic disaster. The oxygen tanks on board Apollo 13 ruptured, almost stranding the crew in space; the Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power...

I’ll cut straight to the point: there aren’t many watches that I actually want to buy. There are plenty that I fancy, a bunch that I don’t, but the list that actually stops me in my tracks and...

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 buy...

We all know the story of how the big three got their sports watches, don’t we? All designed by the same guy, Gérald Genta, in the 1970s? Well that’s not exactly true—at least not for the Vacheron...

The founding of an illustrious watchmaker is most often regarded with high esteem and much celebration, being the singular moment that turned decades and even centuries into a journey of discovery...

If you’ve been around watches long enough, you’ll be familiar with the term “finishing”. That’s where you’ve made the thing, but you just want to give it a last little touch up to make it look...

You may know the moon best as a big rock that hangs in the night sky, but far from being a useless pebble, it actually offers a symbiotic relationship not only with the Earth itself, but the...

If you’re wondering, “Why does this guy talk about Rolex so much?”, I’ll tell you. The presence of Rolex outweighs that of Omega, TAG Heuer and Breitling combined. It is the one brand you can...

If you’ve not heard of the watchmakers Frederique Constant and Patek Philippe, I’ve got a challenge for you. If you have, pretend you haven’t and join along anyway. These two watches, both rose...

It’s not often it can wholeheartedly be said that something costing £3,000 can be markedly better than an equivalent worth a whopping £60,000, but in the case of the Tudor Heritage Chronograph...

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 whirring...

When you’ve got something good, you want to hang on to it, and the 39mm Oyster Perpetual from Rolex was something very, very good. So, naturally, Rolex threw it away. Let’s try and figure out...