Contrary to the last several centuries, watchmaking today is a fast-moving business. Some brands are blowing up, others are falling behind; it’s a game of cat and mouse as to who wears the c...

It’s one thing to create a watch that gathers huge attention across the globe, that generates fervent chatter right from the off, that comes from a line that arguably changed the outlook of ...

There are dive watches and there are dive watches. There are a lot of dive watches, in fact. Choosing one isn’t so much a process of evaluating the pros and cons of each, weighing up the str...

At SIHH in 2019, Audemars Piguet surprised the watch world with the release of the CODE 11.59. Since then, Audemars Piguet has stuck with its new watch—despite the controversy—and has releas...

It was the watch that caused uproar, queues around the block—at least on paper, anyway. Imagine this, a product so undesirable that they can’t even be given away that then evolves to become ...

In 2019, Omega celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 by creating an updated version of the beloved, all gold reference BA145.022. This year, Omega has produced a blue Speedmaster ...

Back in 2017, a Kickstarter arose, and boy did it make one hell of an impression—I am of course talking about the original Baltic Bicompax 001. This 38mm beauty with its vintage good looks a...

It all started at SIHH in 2014, after the successful release of the Altiplano 900P, then the world’s thinnest watch, when one of the marketing team joked with the technical team that they “s...

If you were to pitch what you thought was the ultimate watch, you’d need to have some pretty good justification for doing so. You’d need, say, at least three reasons why. So here they are, t...

Do you know how many versions of the Rolex Submariner have been made since the watch’s official introduction in 1953? Well, an educated guess would say a lot. So, with the news that in 2020 ...

There are special watches, like the A. Lange & Söhne 1815, for example, then there are exceptional watches like the 1815 Tourbillon—and then there are masterpieces, like this 1815 Tourbillon...

You see them come and go, watches made in honour of people whose names are unfamiliar and will most likely remain so. In the case of the Oris Carl Brashear Chronograph, that is not one of th...