I’ve managed to build a reputation over the years for telling stories about watches. There are watches whose histories stretch back in time, whose achievements reach all the way to the moon—and...

It’s the biggest watchmaker in the world, the one everybody has heard of. But not everyone knows everything about Switzerland’s biggest name. Here are five things I’ve learnt about Rolex over...

In 2018, H. Moser & Cie unveiled a one-off watch that couldn’t have looked more different from its usual minimalist creations. It was agony on the eyes, something Picasso might have conjured...

The last thing you’d think of when it comes to Chinese watches is quality. At least, not high quality. We’ve become used to China shipping cheap, reasonably reliable product for some time now...

There are three constants in this world: life, death and the Rolex Submariner being mentioned in a conversation about dive watches. To some, the Submariner is as important as diving itself, if...

My favourite question in the world is, “What if?”. From the most inane speculation—"What if you think in your accent?”—to the greatest endeavour—"What if we went to Mars?”—“What if?” is the leading...

You can always find disparity in everything. Take the $9,000 Dacia Sandero and the $2million Bugatti Chiron, for example, a pair of cars that have a price ratio of over two hundred to one. You...

This is a seminal moment for me. I’ve been around watches for over a decade, some costing many tens if not hundreds of thousands. But not like this. This watch, the limited-edition Richard Mille...

In 1957 the Soviet Union was leaping ahead of the USA in the so-called ‘space race’, launching Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, and sending Yuri Gagarin around Earth on a single...

Glance at the dial of any watch advertisement and the model being promoted will invariably have its hands positioned at ten past ten. But what if it also has a date aperture? The number on display...

In 2019, H. Moser & Cie. released the Endeavour Minute Repeater Tourbillon—a complicated, yet minimal super-watch. Costing hundreds of thousands of pounds and being limited to just ten... pieces,

There can’t be many of us on this Earth who haven’t heard of the likes of Rolex and Patek Philippe, and so it’s understandable that the sheer volume of traffic these brands get results in the...