In the 1930s, as international travel grew and global communications were developing at a rapid pace, Patek Philippe saw a golden opportunity to add a new watch to its line-up: a world timer...

This watch is to the question, “Would you like your Lange 1 with a tourbillon or a perpetual calendar?” the answer, “Yes.” The Lange 1 has, since its 1994 launch, been a flagship platform fo...

It may be a centuries-old technology, but a mechanical watch isn’t indestructible. An object capable of surviving the briny depths or the vacuum of space still has a few weak points that, at...

If you time-travelled back to the 1970s and you decided to buy yourself a watch, you could pick up something rugged and functional like a Rolex Submariner for just a few hundred dollars. Unf...

Ah, parents, you gotta love ‘em. What they watch may not be our cup of tea, but hey-ho, some of the characters and celebrities in these programmes have some pretty interesting wrist candy. H...

It’s not often that an opportunity to peep inside watchmaking’s most revered complication, the minute repeater, comes along. Thanks to IWC and the calibre 98950, we’ve got an opportunity to ...

Value is a tough game in luxury watchmaking. On the one hand, luxury is supposed to be expensive—buying cheap luxury is almost counter intuitive. People are supposed to know what you have is...

Rewind your brain back to the days of school and remind yourself of that dreadful period post handing in your coursework or taking an exam where you waiting to be graded, to have a one of th...

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 a...

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 ...

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 Vac...

Last time we had a look at whether or not the more expensive Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Perpetual was worth twice as much as the Montblanc Heritage Chronométrie Chronograph Quantième...