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...

Being a sheikh in an oil-rich Middle Eastern country has its perks. You get to live in huge palaces bedecked with gold-leaf and fine Italian marble, own car collections big enough to fill ai...

It can only be a matter of time—if it hasn’t already happened—before the title ‘watch consultant’ begins to appear regularly on the closing credits of TV shows and movies. Stylists, wardrobe...

When you’ve got eyes for Rolex but a wallet for Timex, it can be a little bit disheartening, especially if you, like me, have been slowly watching Rolex prices wander off into the distance. ...

Today, at the start of the year 2022, a Rolex Datejust 41 costs £6,350. That is a lot of money. It’s easy to get desensitised to it, however, so I decided to see if I could assemble a collec...

Created for the jetsetters among us, GMT watches have become a staple for anyone requiring access to two time zones at one given time. Despite the standard time being readily available nowad...

It’s one of the big-hitters in the Rolex line-up, a true alpha watch that hogs the limelight at the biggest auctions and is synonymous with one of the coolest actors that ever lived. But wit...

It’s not unreasonable of us to expect every watch to tell us the time, while complex functions like chronographs—once ground-breaking—are now as common as face tattoos in a Mexican prison. S...

There’s something about Audemars Piguet’s watches that invite embellishment of the sparkling kind. Maybe it’s the brand’s long association with glamour, or maybe it’s the size of its watches...

Hublot chose a turbulent time to enter the watch industry. Founded in 1980 when the quartz crisis was still raging and Swiss watchmakers were melting away like a slice of grilled Emmenthal, ...

Panerai watches and luminescent paint go together like Tokyo and neon strip lights. It’s almost impossible to imagine these iconic timepieces without it. Indeed, the two models on which the ...

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...