Despite being centuries old, watchmaking still has the capability to surprise even today. Whilst it is fundamentally a celebration of the past, that doesn’t stop watchmakers applying a different...

No big-budget movie set in the glamour-soaked world of luxury fashion would be complete without a humdinger of a watch line-up, and director Ridley Scott’s new film House of Gucci delivers the...

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: Unilever...

This is a Ulysse Nardin Freak, and it is quite simply the single craziest watch ever made. That’s a bold claim because there are a lot of crazy watches, but this one wins the all-time craziest...

The tourbillon is perhaps the most impressive complication in watchmaking. It’s also not really a complication, nor is it, in a wristwatch, particularly useful. So, what is it, how does it work...

Mechanical watchmaking is full of compromise. There’s only so much that can be done with wheels and springs in a space smaller than a matchbox, and that leads to some little quirks and eccentricities...

Most people looking for a luxury watch want either a Rolex, Omega or TAG Heuer. That’s quite simply the fact of it, for Rolex especially. And it’s easy to see why—they produce great watches...

Every now and then a watch does something that is actually quite surprising. Whether it’s a feature or a function, a price point or a something plain outrageous, it stops you in your tracks and...

The watchmaker known as Zenith has made quite the comeback in recent years. As creator of the world's first integrated automatic chronograph movement - the El Primero - and former supplier of...