Ever since it was invented back in the 1970s, Audemars Piguet’s flagship model, the Royal Oak, has been an “it girl”—or watch—within the community. This luxury steel sports watch carved out ...

Picture the scene: you’ve got £10-15,000 to spend—lucky you—you’re looking to buy a watch and you’ve got a soft spot for chronographs. The default choice, requiring another good dollop of lu...

The Rolex Daytona is a watch that sits high on the wish lists of many and it’s easy to see why. An iconic timepiece, it had a huge fan in the late Hollywood heartthrob and race car driver Pa...

Illustrious, prestigious, refined… there’s no end to the glowing adjectives that get dropped into any discussion around Patek Philippe. Worn by everyone from the Shah of Iran to the Dalai La...

For the true watch connoisseur—I’m talking the big bucks collector here, the kind of guy who has a separate room for his watches—there are three pillars of interest that make up a true high ...

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 bu...

If there’s a watchmaker you should know about that flies under the radar, it’s Jaeger-LeCoultre. Creator of some of the finest movements to ever wear someone else’s badge—here’s looking at y...

If you’ve got fat wedge of cash burning a hole in your pocket and you’ve earmarked a Patek Philippe to spend it on, stop. Wait. You mustn’t spend a single penny until you’ve seen this....

When you’re a watchmaker with over 1,200 patents to your name, you earn yourself a bit of a reputation. In the case of Jaeger-LeCoultre, that’s being known as the watchmaker’s watchmaker, su...

Ever caught yourself looking at a watch that’s well out of budget, thinking, ‘What if?’, only to mentally slap yourself back to harsh reality? Those most exquisite and expensive timepieces m...

For someone looking for a sporty watch in steel, chances are they will probably pick up a Rolex Submariner, perhaps a Panerai Luminor if they’ve got a hankering for something a bit more exot...

The watchmaker known as Zenith has made quite the comeback in recent years. As creator of the world's first integrated automatic chronograph movement - the El Primero - and former supplier o...