Don Draper, Roger Sterling and the rest of the so called “Mad Men” of the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency influenced a generation of 21st-century males who bought into the impec...

The USA was once home to several watch brands of repute, the best known of which are Elgin and Waltham—both long gone—and Hamilton, which was sold in 1974 to the Swiss company that would eve...

Many people associate quality luxury watches with Switzerland, although it certainly isn’t the only hotspot for fine timepieces. In recent years Japan has risen to become a watchmaking stron...

We’ve seen some crazy watch releases in 2023. Rolex put emojis in a date window, H. Moser & Cie. made a dial so black that gazing into it was like being blindfolded in a mine shaft, and a ha...

Being the most popular luxury wristwatch manufacturer in the world, there’s as much said about Rolex that’s true as not. So I’m here to separate fact from fiction and give you the truth on t...

Last year was a good one for entry-level watches, with some of the industry’s big fish—and a few minnows—launching some interesting yet affordable pieces. From well-known watchmakers such as...

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...

Understated, effortlessly cool, highly legible and able to withstand a beating—if not an actual bullet—military watches were around before any other kind of wristwatch if some accounts are t...

It’s been twenty years since the last quartz-powered Rolex left the factory, closing the door on a seemingly indifferent relationship in which the brand never really became a fully fledged m...

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...

What do the ice cream companies Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s have in common? Don’t worry, I’m not about to make some lame joke; the answer is that they are owned by the same company: Uni...

If you want to tick all the boxes of what a cult watch should be, look no further than Hamilton’s Ventura model. Highly distinctive design? Check. Pioneering technology? Check. And as for ce...