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An Introduction To The World Of Watch Modding
Ever owned a watch that would be perfect but for one small niggling design element? It might be a date display that brings disharmony to the dial, a bezel that lacks pop,...
7 Of The Best Super-Slim Watches
As a nation, we're obsessed with size. From fat-zapping supplements to fast-track gym hacks, tummy tucks to tabloid coverage of Rob Kardashian's weight struggles, we're hell bent on getting slimmer. But maybe...
Thought the Brexit debate was bad? Try asking the watch world to choose between quartz and mechanical. The former boasts increased accuracy and cheaper maintenance costs. The latter is a product of...
The Watches To Put On Your Christmas Wishlist
Watch: Timex Metropolitan Plus Niceness Level: Helped An Old Lady Cross The Road Trust Timex's entry to the smartwatch canon to be understated. Where other brands devote their faces to...
The Watches That Changed The Game Forever
Every now and then a stop-the-press timepiece comes along that sends tremors through the industry. Design strategies have to be recalibrated, a component that has been used in a movement for years...
How To Choose The Right Watch For Your Wrist Size
It may be a cliché, but in 2017 we’re all complicit in the understanding that one size does not fit all. Learning to dress for your body shape is the key to looking great,...
8 Of The Best Square-Faced Watches
The watch industry moves at a pace that makes menswear look indecisive. But then, developing a new case shape isn't like making your tees a bit longer. When faced with a big...
The Best Customisable Watch Brands
Watches have, to some degree, long been customisable. A second strap is often second nature to some luxury brands (which you’d hope for, given the price tag), while others settle for an...
Ryan Gosling Just Showed Off A Very Stylish Vintage Rolex
Ryan Gosling is a man blessed with all the goodness: good clothes, good genes, very good partner. And now, it seems the Gos amongst men also has a watch that we all...
Meet Your Next Statement Watch
It’s hard to bring something new to the watch game. Unless you’re appealing to people who have bank balances the size of most people’s mortgages, finding ways to let off some horological...
Hublot & Chelsea FC Launch The Limited Edition Chelsea Chronograph
Only a very exclusive club is granted access to Chelsea's state-of-the-art Surrey training ground. To get past security, you have to be a real player - whether a footballer or...
Jake Kassan and Kramer LaPlante are not your average college dropouts. At just 22 years old, the pair pulled off a near impossible feat – one only matched by names like Jobs,...
Forget, for a moment, that your phone can dance between time zones before you've even popped your chronometer's crown. Forget the horrors of airport security manhandling your expensive cogs and gears. Because...
What Makes A Watch Good Value For Money?
A watch has two kinds of value. First there's the pounds and pence you spend and might, possibly, get back in the future. If this is what matters to you in a...
8 Of The Best Two-Tone Watches
For a long time, the experts said never mix your precious metals – it was a dinner party faux pas, and, for want of a better word, tacky.
But rules can change. Even...
Baselworld 2018 Preview: The Most Anticipated New Watches
Another year, another Baselworld - it's the world's biggest horology love-in, where luxury watch brands unveil their latest timepieces (and flash their chequebooks) from gold-plated booths with a purpose-built aquarium inside. ...
8 Of The Most Memorable Watches On Film
While we’re regularly subjected to celluloid drivel on the big screen these days (did you see The Angry Birds Movie? Nope, us neither), Hollywood’s canon contains some films that really are cinema’s...
10 Of The Best Watch-Focussed Instagram Accounts
They often say Instagram is the window to one’s soul – and while viewing Kim Kardashian’s painfully curated gallery of pouting selfies, I’m inclined to agree.
The world’s favourite social app does have...
10 Of The Best Watches From SIHH 2017
The Swiss city of Geneva is known for being the home of luxury, but even by comparison the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie is flashy with a capital F. ...
As with fashion, watches never sleep. (Well, some do when their power reserve runs out). The watch industry is always moving forward, developing with technological innovations and intriguing new designs. Although, it...
Bell & Ross’ First Square Diving Watch Is Deeply Cool
Hear the words Bell & Ross and you think 'pilot' or maybe, if you’re being really specific, 'cockpit instruments'. Which isn’t surprising considering this brand was set up by a...
How To Pick The Right Watch For Your Style
As Christmas gifts go, a watch is a pretty safe bet, right? Every man needs one, they’re available at price points from £10 to £100,000, and they don’t require undertaking espionage to...
Baume & Mercier Shelby Cobra Watch Launch
The collective noun for a group of cobras is a 'quiver'. And it's particularly apt when applied to a fleet of vintage sports cars shaking like throaty rattlesnakes on the...
When it comes to fine watchmaking, change is a bit of a dirty word. Steeped in tradition, Swiss luxury watchmakers take pride in dwelling in the mechanical age, revelling Gollum-like in the...
The Best Watches Under £100 You Can Buy In 2024
In the watch world, it's easy to dismiss anything affordable as sub-par. If there's no automatic movement, diamonds or big brand name - and with those things, a sizeable price tag -...
10 Of The Best Watches Under £350
How you define ‘affordable’ depends on the zeros in your paycheque. And in Geneva, brands assume your take home looks similar to a professional footballer's. Supposedly ‘entry level’ pieces can cost thousands...
These Affordable Sea-Faring Watches Are Underwater Treasures
here are few places where man is so brutally exposed to the vagaries of nature than when attempting to control 510kg of carbon fibre through rough seas. This is the world of...
Seiko 2016 Premier Watch Collection
It'sSwitzerland which receives the most kudos in watchmaking. At Baselworld, it’s the traditional marques which, with every big reveal, secures the most rapturous applause and from there, space on the wrists of...
7 Watches We Can’t Wait To See At Baselworld 2017
Basel, Switzerland’s biggest horology event, is basically a fashion week for watches, during which brands from Rolex to Rado showcase their wares to press and buyers. This year, the...
The Apple Watch Rumour Mill Is Spinning As excitement continues to build around the release of the first ever Apple Watch, the rumours are pouring in thick and fast. GQ has...
