If you were to simply read the specs of this Patek Philippe 5170R and A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph, they'd seem almost identical. They're both around 39mm, both hand wound in-house chro...

What do Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin all have in common? Yes, they do make up the top three best watchmakers in the world, but there's something else they share: t...

Omega's Planet Ocean is something of a staple of the brand's line-up, and it feels like it's been around for ever—but that's not that case. The year before it appeared on the wrist of James ...

The release of a new limited edition by Omega probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone. The brand has made something of a habit of releasing special edition models—from Seamaster Bond wat...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it—or so the adage goes. That’s more or less Rolex’s approach when releasing new models. The brand avoids drastic revisions to its watches, because it can be a d...

3,000 tonnes of Saturn 5 rocket, consuming fuel at fifteen tonnes per second, travelling 240,000 miles away from Earth, at a cost equivalent today of £25 billion, is perhaps one of the most ...

Black and steel. Lots of black and steel. The average watch display has all the vibrance of a February puddle—but as we slowly amble towards spring, it’s time to look at something with a bit...

Carbon is the sixth most abundant element in the universe. It makes up the thinnest material in the world, graphene (measured in a single sheet at 0.15 nanometres, 650,000 times thinner than...

We all know the scene—you pass a dodgy market stall down a back alley, when suddenly the guy manning it pulls out a drawer to reveal a surplus of what appear to be luxury Swiss timepieces. W...

In 1999, carmaker Pagani threw down the gauntlet for luxury goods. The Italian manufacturer forgot about restraints on creativity, ignored budget limits and time restrictions, and created a ...

Forget Area 51, forget the recipe for Coca Cola; the Swiss watch industry holds some of the best-kept secrets in the entire world. In a business worth over £14 billion, image and reputation ...

Fifty Fathoms, Submariner and Seamaster are names that need little introduction. The first, the famous and the fruitful, this trio has ruled the roost since they appeared on (and started) th...