A simple, no-snobbery guide to choosing well Choosing your first watch can quickly become confusing. Between the big brands, micro-brands, automatic watches, quartz, prices ranging from €100 to several thousand……
While some watchmakers add complications, others challenge the very way a complication should work. MB&F embodies that idea perfectly with the LM Sequential Flyback EVO. When MB&F unveiled the LM…
The “dress watch”, or the discreet art of dressing well at the wrist Some watches assert themselves through performance, engineering, presence… That’s the case with tool watches. And then…
When the watch wasn’t jewellery … but an instrument Before it became a status symbol or a style accessory, the wristwatch was for a long time a utilitarian object.…
Legibility born of noise, cold and urgency Before it became an aesthetic code—oversized numerals, sharp hands, crisp contrasts—the legibility of pilot’s watches was a matter of survival. In a…
If you watched Magnum as a kid, sprawled on the carpet in front of a cathode-ray TV, I have some bittersweet news: you’re probably old enough to have already owned…
A bracelet born of necessity: reliability, movement, real life In watchmaking, some innovations impose themselves because they answer a simple question: how do you wear a watch without thinking…
After presidential wrists, politicians’ watches and their more or less “republican” timepieces, it’s time for a change of scenery: here, we leave gilt behind for cast iron, protocol for protein,…
As part of our “Who Wears What” column, after taking a look at Sarah Knafo’s wrist (read it again here: what watch does Sarah Knafo wear), we move on to…
The day precision became a weapon Some revolutions arrive with trumpets blaring; others settle in as if self-evident, quietly, until the moment they flip the table. At the end…
From Constraint to Style: When Tools Set the Standard In the history of watchmaking, few arenas have shaped design as profoundly as the battlefield. Military watches were never meant to…
Beneath the surface, a simple idea: measuring time to survive Before they became style signatures in the office, dive watches were born of a vital imperative: knowing how many…
The gestures that sculpt light Even before you read the time, the eye likes to wander. On a perlage-covered mainplate, light clings as if to fine sand. On a…
I’ll admit it outright: my heart instinctively beats for automatic watches. No doubt out of habit, and comfort too. You slip them on your wrist, they live, they feed on…
The myth of “all in-house” Two words are enough to electrify a conversation among enthusiasts: “in-house” (or “manufacture”). A technical and symbolic password that has become a blunt instrument…
The word “chronometer” isn’t just a veneer Two lines on a dial are enough to make an enthusiast’s heart race: “Chronometer Officially Certified”. Behind that phrase lies more than a…
