This year marks twenty years since the Japanese brand Grand Seiko launched its first ever GMT model. Considering Grand Seiko has been around since 1960, we’re not sure what took it so long.....

Two-tone as a musical genre was a blend of punk and Jamaican ska that emerged in the UK in the late seventies and was pioneered by a host of multiracial bands that included The Specials and ...

With so many iconic timepieces to its name, Rolex is a brand that doesn’t have many watches that lurk beneath the general watch enthusiast’s radar. But there are still a few, nonetheless, th...

In the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale Junior, a young conman played by Leonardo DiCaprio, disguises himself as a Pan Am pilot to escape the attention of FBI agent Carl ...

When actor Timothy Dalton walked away from the James Bond role in the early 90s after just two films, the franchise had become untethered from its horological moorings. Bond may have been ci...

It might seem as though Rolex doesn’t do much to maintain its legendary status in the watch industry. Rolling out endless new models and limited editions or packing its watches with complica...

The 1972 GMT Master adorned the wrist of Marlon Brando in the epic movie before disappearing for decades, finally turning up at a Phillips auction in New York where it sold for a staggering ...

Christmas Eve, 1995, and every kid in the land was lying awake, wide-eyed and excited, imagining various scenarios that all involved unwrapping the newly launched Playstation. Most of those ...