2021’s first big release in 5…4…3…2…1: introducing the new Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch—the watch we have come to love, now with a face-lift and a shiny new movement, the Co-Axia...

The seventies was a decade of catastrophic disaster. The oxygen tanks on board Apollo 13 ruptured, almost stranding the crew in space; the Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear pow...

I’ll cut straight to the point: there aren’t many watches that I actually want to buy. There are plenty that I fancy, a bunch that I don’t, but the list that actually stops me in my tracks a...

Ever thought to yourself, “I wish a high-end, historic watchmaker would just make a really top-drawer, beautiful watch with an incredible, chronometer-rated in-house movement that I could bu...

We all know the story of how the big three got their sports watches, don’t we? All designed by the same guy, Gérald Genta, in the 1970s? Well that’s not exactly true—at least not for the Vac...

The founding of an illustrious watchmaker is most often regarded with high esteem and much celebration, being the singular moment that turned decades and even centuries into a journey of dis...

If you’ve been around watches long enough, you’ll be familiar with the term “finishing”. That’s where you’ve made the thing, but you just want to give it a last little touch up to make it lo...

You may know the moon best as a big rock that hangs in the night sky, but far from being a useless pebble, it actually offers a symbiotic relationship not only with the Earth itself, but the...

If you’re wondering, “Why does this guy talk about Rolex so much?”, I’ll tell you. The presence of Rolex outweighs that of Omega, TAG Heuer and Breitling combined. It is the one brand you ca...

If you’ve not heard of the watchmakers Frederique Constant and Patek Philippe, I’ve got a challenge for you. If you have, pretend you haven’t and join along anyway. These two watches, both r...

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...