As one of the industry’s most revered brands, Patek Philippe’s launches are always eagerly awaited at Watches & Wonders. Read on to discover several highlights unveiled at this year’s event,...

Wrist Watch is our new data-driven report pinpointing at a series level the 50 watches that have dominated the market over the past year. Using over 4.5 million data points across seven cate...

It goes without saying that any “Best of” Audemars Piguet list will be dominated by variations of its hugely popular Royal Oak series. After all, the brand has equipped its seminal flagship ...

When the early 20th century business moguls Henry Graves and James Ward Packard—the Bezos and Musk of their day—competed with each other to own the world’s most complicated watch......

While £1,000 won’t get you the best watch—not by a long shot—it can still get you a good watch, and even a great one. Choose carefully, do the research, and you’ll find something worth hangi...

It's only a matter of time before the title “Watch consultant” regularly appears in the closing credits of TV series, with wardrobe assistants and prop masters becoming increasingly aware th...

Released in 2024 on Netflix, The Gentlemen sees English aristocrats pitted against ruthless London gangsters, along with a medley of religious fanatics, Irish travellers and an Albanian drug...

In one episode of The Sopranos, ageing old-school mob boss Carmine Lupertazzi reprimands the show’s main character, Tony Soprano, for wearing beachwear at a family barbecue. “A don doesn’t w...

Don Draper, Roger Sterling and the rest of the so called “Mad Men” of the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency influenced a generation of 21st-century males who bought into the impec...

Succession has become one of the most talked-about TV series in recent years with people speculating over who would become the next top dog of family-owned media empire, Waystar Royco. The b...

Shut your eyes, stick a pin in a map of the world and there’s a decent chance it’ll land on a country with some kind of watch industry—be it large factories churning out cheap quartz models ...

The Chinese famously invented fireworks, paper and, er, Tik Tok, among many other things. But when it comes to watchmaking they have imitated more than innovated. Things are, however, starti...