The movies tell you to dream big. Reality, on the other hand, has other ideas. The cushiony clouds of the dream are nothing compared to reality’s hobnail boot up the backside, a swift kick b...

By the time Thunderball, the fourth James Bond film, was released in 1965, cinema’s most famous spy had already established himself as a staunch Rolex man. Bond, then played by Sean C...

Back in the early 1900s, racing timer manufacturer Heuer decided to do something pretty revolutionary. Where watches had previously been able to record up to an 1/8 of a second and in rare c...

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’s not often that a watch is stumbled upon that makes you do a bulgy-eyed double take and say, “How much?!”—at least, certainly not at the bargainous end of the scale. This, the Bulgari Oc...

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 ...

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...

In 1969, Zenith released a trio of watches—all featuring the revolutionary El Primero calibre, the first automatic chronograph movement. Out of the three watches, two had tonneau-shaped case...

In the beginning there was darkness. Then there was the Omega Speedmaster. Seriously, the Speedmaster is a watch epic in biblical proportions, a first in so many categories including, of cou...

It’s been 140 years since Kintaro Hattori founded the horological giant Seiko. To celebrate, Grand Seiko—or more specifically, the illustrious Micro Artist Studio—has been working on watches...

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...

Some of you may know already that I’m a bit of a fan of Panerai. I’ve owned a 312 and a 177 and I still miss them both. It’s a brand that’s very difficult to explain; like marmite, it goes w...