While £1,000 won’t get you the best watch—not by a long shot—it can still get you a good watch, and even a great one. Choose carefully, do the research, and you’ll find something worth hangi...

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...

Shut your eyes, stick a pin in a map of the world and there’s a decent chance it’ll land on a country with some kind of watch industry—be it large factories churning out cheap quartz models ...

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...

A common watch collecting woe is seeing a watch that you absolutely adore and that’s just the thing you’ve been looking for—you love the style, the price is right, it’s your favourite colour...

Now, the criteria for what makes a perfect watch collection varies from person to person. You could keep it simple and follow the guidelines set out by John Mayer— “is it shiny and does it ...

Who am I? Don’t worry; I’m not having an existential crisis; I just thought I’d answer the question for you, the viewer. I’m not AI, although that is definitely, exactly something AI would s...

What makes a great everyday watch? Ask around, and you’ll hear collectors mention legibility and robustness. While I agree with those qualities, I would also add that the watch shouldn’t be ...

Known collectively as the “Holy Trinity” of watchmaking, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin are three of the world’s most prestigious luxury watch brands. Through comple...

It’s easy to get wrapped up in specs when choosing a watch. Of course you want to get great value for money, but really if we think about this too hard, the best value for money when it come...

There’s a watch that’s packed with features, dripping with quality and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg. This is the Seiko SPB121 Alpinist, and at £690, it’s long been mooted as the most p...

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...