In 2017, a rare Rolex Daytona worn by the actor Paul Newman sold at a Phillips auction for $18m. Not only was it owned by a star of the silver screen and barbecue sauce bottles the world ove...

If you’re just about to buy your first watch or you’ve been collecting for years, there are a few common things that even the most seasoned watch owners get wrong. Even if you know the rest,...

Whilst just about everyone is willing to commit all manner of sins to get hold of a Royal Oak or Nautilus, there remains a watch within the circle of famed designer Gérald Genta’s legacy tha...

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...

In the pantheon of iconic chronographs, a handful are assured of permanent residence, rooted there like sturdy great oak trees. We are of course referring to the usual suspects that have alm...

For the second in our Audemars Piguet section of our In Focus series, we aren’t going to mention the Royal Oak even once … starting from now. We’ve got three more incredible facts about watc...

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, ...

There are several leading luxury watch brands who have been resuscitated after decades of lying comatose—from the mighty Blancpain to Jaquet Droz—but in most cases it was the quartz crisis t...

If you could wander around a graveyard dedicated to deceased watch brands you undoubtedly wouldn’t recognise the names etched into most of the headstones. Over the last century hundreds, po...

No one in the watch industry can boast a legacy like that of the great Gerald Genta, who died ten years ago this week. Genta didn’t merely design one iconic watch for one brand. Across a de...

It’s not often it can wholeheartedly be said that something costing £3,000 can be markedly better than an equivalent worth a whopping £60,000, but in the case of the Tudor Heritage Chronogra...

What do you get when you cross Italian flamboyance with the world’s most vivacious watch designer? The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Skeleton Power Reserve, of course, and it is quite possibly the ...