Remember that kid at school who was, let’s say, slightly left of centre? He’d sit at the back of class, wearing a neon green and orange sweatshirt and listen to obscure Swedish prog-rock on his...

The humble chronograph. First invented at the beginning of the 19th century, it’s one of the most useful—and one of the most common—complications you’ll find on a watch. The chronograph has been...

It doesn't seem all too long ago that U-Boat was just a fledgling brand, offering a uniquely styled yet simple case with a basic quartz movement in it. Like many young upstarts, they had a concept...

Someone's going to realise soon, and then it will be too late. What am I talking about? Glashutte Original's prices. Now here's a brand that, for all intents and purposes, is on a level with...

Christmas Eve, 1995, and every kid in the land was lying awake, wide-eyed and excited, imagining various scenarios that all involved unwrapping the newly launched Playstation. Most of those kids...

Since the introduction of quartz movements, programmable computers and micro-sensor technology, the mechanical dive watch has become to diving what the horseshoe is to motoring. The day of the...

Reviewing a pre-Daytona, exotic-dialled Rolex Cosmograph 6240 is a little daunting to say the least, and not only because it's a fifty-year-old piece of extremely valuable Rolex history, but...

Chances are if something isn't working quite right in today's world, all it needs is a bit of software tinkering. The speed of technological development has rocketed since the birth of the personal...

If there was a word that best summed up the Swiss watch industry, it would be 'conservative'. With manufacturers such as HYT, MB&F and Urwerk on the scene, that might seem a little contrived...

There is something of the steampunk about Vincent Perriard's HYT H1. The ambiguity of the company’s name, (which can either be pronounced ‘H-Y-T’ or as ‘hit’), alludes to a duality that is evinced...

Apparently you should never meet your heroes. It's an axiom that transposes well onto the thinly-veiled sickness that is the hunt for the perfect watch, the journey that can build an inanimate...

There's something about the Italians that attracts an almost religious following. Take Ferrari's Tifosi by way of an example; their dedication to the supercar manufacturer could make even the...