How on earth do you whittle down the very best 30 Rolex watches? By dispensing with any strict criteria and going with your gut instinct. Some make the grade for their association with a fam...

With its never-ending quest for improvement and the constant drip-feed of new models, it’s inevitable that Rolex has to discontinue a few favourites from time to time. With that said, let’s ...

Sometimes watches vanish from their brand’s catalogue quicker than a magician’s rabbit. Most of the time it’s easy to see why a model has been given its marching orders. Perhaps it didn’t se...

Having been in the industry for over twenty years, we at Watchfinder have seen an array of watches come and go, some of which shook up the watch world for all the right reasons. To celebrate...

For half a century, extraordinary developments in watchmaking were taking place in Japan’s Grand Seiko factories and design studios. Unfortunately, unless you pro-actively sought them out, y...

This year sees half a century since Audemars Piguet released its Royal Oak model, an industry game-changer that introduced the idea of a luxury steel sports watch. And you wouldn’t bet again...

March, 2012, Baselworld. Ten years ago. Two words were paired together in an unlikely combo that would shake up an entire industry. Now, the Tudor Black Bay has reached the end of its first ...

When Rolex launched the Sky-Dweller at Baselworld a decade ago this year, it was its first completely new model since the release of the Yacht-Master in 1992.Any new Rolex watch, whether an ...

If you had told any watch aficionado a couple of decades ago that there would soon be such a thing as a carbon fibre skeletonized tourbillon watch that could withstand a battering on the ten...

In the 1930s, as international travel grew and global communications were developing at a rapid pace, Patek Philippe saw a golden opportunity to add a new watch to its line-up: a world timer...

For a watch that has made such a seismic impact on the industry, the Royal Oak’s conception was a fleeting affair. A broom cupboard quickie rather than an all-night-long kama sutra session, ...

Richard Mille’s debut watch, the RM 001, put a hand-grenade up the backside of the industry when it was released twenty years ago. And it wasn’t just due to its outlandish looks and spine-sh...