Seeing a Greubel Forsey watch for the very first time can be an intimidating and slightly bewildering experience, a bit like an ancient explorer stumbling across a previously unencountered large...

Picture the scene: you’ve got £10-15,000 to spend—lucky you—you’re looking to buy a watch and you’ve got a soft spot for chronographs. The default choice, requiring another good dollop of luck...

Never did anyone think that five letters in that particular order could have such an astounding effect. Rolex fever seems to have come in at a close second for this generation’s largest pandemic...

You can always find disparity in everything. Take the $9,000 Dacia Sandero and the $2million Bugatti Chiron, for example, a pair of cars that have a price ratio of over two hundred to one. You...

Back in the late 90s, if you had money to burn and wanted a watch that looked like no other, one whose dials made the Rio Carnival look like an Amish funeral, you wore one of two brands: Alain...

Complicated timepieces are things of wonder, the product of countless hours of painstaking work by the most experienced top watchmakers from some of the most prestigious brands around. To celebrate...

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...

This is a seminal moment for me. I’ve been around watches for over a decade, some costing many tens if not hundreds of thousands. But not like this. This watch, the limited-edition Richard Mille...

Any one of these five timepieces—from the sporty Royal Oak in rose gold to the pilot-friendly Breitling Chronomat— would be a worthy cornerstone of a collection. They’re some of the most desirable...

The chances of finding yourself stranded in a jungle or desert and having to claw your way back to civilisation must be extremely remote, unless you’re a soldier in the special services. But...

It’s not unreasonable of us to expect every watch to tell us the time, while complex functions like chronographs—once ground-breaking—are now as common as face tattoos in a Mexican prison. So...

In March of 2017, at a Christie’s auction in Dubai, a Richard Mille RM 012 sold, with fees, for over half a million dollars. The 2006 watch, replete with its signature tonneau case and skeletonised...