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Watch Words: Frequency, Beat Rate

Watch Words: Chrono Meter

The Milsub Before the Milsub: Part 2 – Rolex Milsub A/6538A, a Special Edition for the Special Boat Service

The Milsub Before the Milsub: Part 1

The Return Of A Master

Conversation with Breguet: Réveil Musical

Conversation with Breguet: Type XXII Flyback Chronograph GMT

Equal Billing

The Painted Lady

Field Test: IWC Aquatimer Chronograph

The IWC Aquatimer Chronograph is put through its paces in the crystal blue waters off the Caribbean island of Bonaire Bonaire   Scouting for stonefish and eels among the fire coral 60-feet down, I get the signal from a member of our dive group that he’s reached 100 bars in his tank. It’s time to […]

Glashutte Original Senator Navigator Worldview

Breitling Transocean Chronograph

The Transocean Chronograph recalls Breitling’s classic chronographs from a bygone era of glamorous jet travel   I am old enough to remember the days when jet travel was the epitome of glamour. The whiff of exoticism and adventure that Pan Am ads used to give me as a kid was recently brought back vividly through […]

A Word on Haute Horlogerie Finishing

Finishing encompasses a variety of techniques. The application of traditional Genevan/Swiss-style finishing is not unlike writing a sonnet: there is a very particular, strict form you have to follow, but within that form, you are free to express yourself to the limits of your skill and taste. The basic vocabulary includes anglage, or the bevelling […]

A Visit to Vacheron Constantin

The oldest continuously operating house of haute horlogerie in the world has all the old-school, high-touch craftsmanship you’d expect - with some surprising new tricks up its sleeve.   Visiting any watch manufacturer is an education. So it was with both eager anticipation and a touch of anxiety that I accepted an invitation from Vacheron […]

Harder, Faster, Stronger: The New Panerai Calibre P.1000

I assembled the new Panerai movement the other day. I wish there was a way to rephrase that sentence so I could accurately convey how challenging I found it to be. To be absolutely fair, it was at the end of a long week. You may think that Watches & Wonders is more chilled out […]

Watchmaking Grandmasters Pick Budget Timepieces

Field Test: Tudor Pelagos

Brief History of Tudor Dive Watches

Tudor was founded by none other than the founder of Rolex, Hans Wilsdorf, in 1946 to be an affordable alternative to Rolex, using the parent company’s cases but fitting them with third-party movements to keep prices lower. With a few exceptions, the early Tudor watches largely mimicked Rolex models, and even sometimes bore the Rolex […]

Beyond Tourbillons: The Anti-Tourbillons!

The basic idea behind the tourbillon is to take the escapement and put it in a mechanically driven mount (or a group of nested mounts, in the case of the family of orbital tourbillons) in order to create a single average rate in all the vertical positions - and in many instances, to create a […]

Building a Better Tourbillon

The technical and aesthetic challenges that have to be surmounted in crafting a fine tourbillon are reasons why they are especially prized. One very basic problem, is power. Mainsprings should be kept as weak as possible in order to reduce wear, but they need to be powerful enough to deliver sufficient energy to keep the […]

Dossier: The Freak by Ulysse Nardin

The Ulysse Nardin Freak arrived at the beginning of the 21st century and was by far the most radical reinterpretation of the wristwatch since wristwatches had first started to be worn over a century before. The mechanical renaissance had at that point been well underway for over a decade, but wristwatch design, with very few […]

How to assess a Minute Repeater, the Patek Philippe Way

Field Test: Blancpain Tribute to Fifty Fathoms Aqua Lung

“Coast Guard, this is motor-vessel Bonsai, we have a missing diver in the water. Repeat, missing diver.” I scanned the choppy water as we motored in increasing arcs, realising the near-impossibility of spotting a person in the 7ft (2m) swells. I’d rehearsed this scenario in my head a hundred times, but nothing could prepare me […]

Dossier: Rolex Explorer II

Field Test: Rolex Explorer II

The Unofficial Top 10 Watches Of 2015 - Part 4

SIHH 2016: Van Cleef & Arpels

SIHH 2016: Parmigiani

SIHH 2016: Baume & Mercier

SIHH 2016: URWERK