The reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the Glashütte revival led by A.Lange & Sohne. This proud watchmaking town in Saxonia, eastern Germany, had se...

Having trouble picking out your next watch? Well, you’re not alone. We’re spoilt for choice. It seems every brand has a million different watches, with a million different variations—yes, I’...

If you’re tired of trying to get a Rolex then you’ve come to the right place, because I’m going to introduce you to a whole bunch of alternatives at different price points for each of the br...

Looking at the timepieces below, you’d think there’s very little watch wizardry going on beneath their dials. With no extra hour hands, pushers flanking the crown or clusters of subdials, th...

With close to 8 billion people on this planet, it seems likely that at least one of them would have figured out how to make great watches that are reasonably priced. And I don’t just mean ma...

As with life itself, everything comes with its ups and downs, good times and bad times. And the luxury watchmaking industry is certainly no exception to this rule. In fact, it has faced its ...

A quarter of the international luxury watch market, which comprises of hundreds, if not thousands of brands, is dominated by Rolex. It’s the Stairway to Heaven of the watch industry, the sex...

There are several leading luxury watch brands who have been resuscitated after decades of lying comatose—from the mighty Blancpain to Jaquet Droz—but in most cases it was the quartz crisis t...

For a town that’s the epicentre of high-end German watchmaking, Glashütte is an unassuming kind of place. Quaint, low-rise buildings line the dozen or so streets which are surrounded by verd...

Glance at the dial of any watch advertisement and the model being promoted will invariably have its hands positioned at ten past ten. But what if it also has a date aperture? The number on d...

Observing a well-made movement never gets old. I’ve even seen people wear their watches reversed, just so they can glance down at their watch’s movement—sort of defeats the purpose of a watc...

What do the ice cream companies Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s have in common? Don’t worry, I’m not about to make some lame joke; the answer is that they are owned by the same company: Uni...