While the industry continues to debate the hits and misses of this year’s Watches and Wonders, we’ve put together 12 of our favourite timepieces launched at the event. Which of these made your...

In true Jaeger-LeCoultre style, the master watchmaker has been showcasing the very best of its watchmaking capabilities via a selection of stunning and technically advanced Reverso models. Here...

It goes without saying that any “Best of” Audemars Piguet list will be dominated by variations of its hugely popular Royal Oak series. After all, the brand has equipped its seminal flagship model...

When the early 20th century business moguls Henry Graves and James Ward Packard—the Bezos and Musk of their day—competed with each other to own the world’s most complicated watch...

Shut your eyes, stick a pin in a map of the world and there’s a decent chance it’ll land on a country with some kind of watch industry—be it large factories churning out cheap quartz models or...

The Chinese famously invented fireworks, paper and, er, Tik Tok, among many other things. But when it comes to watchmaking they have imitated more than innovated. Things are, however, starting...

Since the 17th century Switzerland has been a horological power-house, with almost every leading contemporary luxury watch brand establishing itself in the country between then and the early...

The USA was once home to several watch brands of repute, the best known of which are Elgin and Waltham—both long gone—and Hamilton, which was sold in 1974 to the Swiss company that would eventually...

The reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the Glashütte revival led by A.Lange & Sohne. This proud watchmaking town in Saxonia, eastern Germany, had seen...

Considering it’s a direct neighbour to the mighty watchmaking giant that is Switzerland, it makes sense that France has a burgeoning watch industry of its own. In fact, the nation’s watchmaking...

Many people associate quality luxury watches with Switzerland, although it certainly isn’t the only hotspot for fine timepieces. In recent years Japan has risen to become a watchmaking stronghold...

Rolex and TAG Heuer have given us some of the world’s most legendary watches, from the Submariner to the Carrera. These two Swiss titans were once considered equals with much in common, but how...