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...

Two of the oldest and best-loved watch brands around, Longines and Omega are names that inspire trust, admiration and respect in aficionados everywhere. Frankly, if they were humans you’d ma...

When they’ve given up the groupies, drugs, boozing and throwing TVs out of hotel room windows, what does an ageing rock legend do with their time and money? Most of them would rather stay a...

If you want to tick all the boxes of what a cult watch should be, look no further than Hamilton’s Ventura model. Highly distinctive design? Check. Pioneering technology? Check. And as for ce...

Handling a Rolex for the very first time, your eyes may be trained on the dial but you’re also subliminally taking in the reassuring feel of the bracelet. We’re loath to get all hot-under-th...

The watch industry is full of Sliding Doors moments. Seemingly small decisions that, had they been taken differently – or not at all – might have steered events in another direction. ...

As sibling relationships go, that of Rolex and Tudor has been a relatively harmonious one. Less the Gallagher brothers of Oasis fame, more Venus and Serena. But only recently has Tudor stepp...

Its muscular cushion case is one of the most recognisable watch profiles around, but Panerai’s Radiomir began life as little more than a modded Rolex Oyster produced for a handful of Italian...

The French poet Charles Baudelaire once said that “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”. And something similar could be said for Rolex's outsour...

If you’re someone who’s just getting started thinking about buying their first luxury watch, who’s got a few thousand to spend and is overwhelmed by it all—stay tuned. If you’re not w...

I know what you’re thinking—it’s just a watch, right? How hard can owning and wearing a watch be? Well, you’re probably doing just fine to be honest, however it’s worth running you buy these...

Change is in the air. I can feel it. Watchmaking, like many things in life, goes through cycles of evolution, every now and then purging the old and ushering in the new. Around twenty years ...