Every year a handful of watchmakers release a special watch to usher in the Chinese New Year. As a result, we often see limited-edition pieces adorned with creatures from mythical dragons to...

As with life itself, everything comes with its ups and downs, good times and bad times. And the luxury watchmaking industry is certainly no exception to this rule. In fact, it has faced its fair...

A quarter of the international luxury watch market, which comprises of hundreds, if not thousands of brands, is dominated by Rolex. It’s the Stairway to Heaven of the watch industry, the sexy...

For half a century, extraordinary developments in watchmaking were taking place in Japan’s Grand Seiko factories and design studios. Unfortunately, unless you pro-actively sought them out, you...

If you’re a successful watchmaker then you’re almost certainly an incredibly skilled person with an unerring eye for detail. Better still, these technical abilities are pretty transferable and...

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...

There are several leading luxury watch brands who have been resuscitated after decades of lying comatose—from the mighty Blancpain to Jaquet Droz—but in most cases it was the quartz crisis that...

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...

Not every watch has to be revolutionary, ground-breaking or earth-shattering. Some watches are just cool, quirky—copyright Doug DeMuro, 2013—interesting—and the DiaMaster Grande Seconde from...

The search for the perfect watch is an endless one. It needs to be historically important, it needs to be aesthetically unique, it needs to demonstrate watchmaking excellence—and importantly...