What Is a Jumping Hour Watch?
A Different Way to Read Time In the collective imagination, a “classic” watch tells the time with hands: one for the hours, another for the minutes, sometimes a seconds…
Seiko Prospex Speedtimer Solar: Three New Variations with Neo-Retro Flair
Seiko—who would be wrong to deny itself—keeps its Prospex Speedtimer line alive with three new takes on its emblematic solar chronograph. Nothing revolutionary on the agenda, but well-judged aesthetic tweaks…
Why Watch Case Diameters Have Shrunk Over the Past Ten Years
A Return to Proportion: How We Moved from “Bigger” to “Better” Ten or fifteen years ago, a watch was worn like a statement. On wrists, 44mm and up asserted…
Lip Revives the Nautic 3: Four New Affordable Dive Watches
Lip brings the Nautic 3 back into the spotlight with four new references, including a limited-edition collaboration. These 200-metre water-resistant dive watches, in a compact 39 mm format, embody the…
How the Lange 1 Became a Benchmark Watch in Germany
A watch born in a country that had to be rebuilt When we talk about benchmark watches, the conversation often turns to Switzerland, its valleys and its dynasties. Yet…
Why Some Watches Stop When You’re Not Wearing Them
The little morning drama: a frozen watch, time on pause There’s that gesture—intimate, almost ceremonial: picking up your watch from the bedside table, feeling the cold metal or the…
Should You Polish Your Watch?
The temptation of “like new”: a sign of the times All it takes is a beam of light catching a scratched caseband for the thought to pop up: “What…
Why Enamel-Dial Watches Are So Sought After
The enamel dial: a quiet luxury that never goes out of style In a watch world saturated with spectacular finishes, new textures and bold colours, the enamel dial moves…
What Is a Power Reserve and Why It Matters
There is, in the ritual of a mechanical watch, a poetry that defies time. In the morning, you adjust a crown, feel the resistance of the mainspring, almost listen…
What Watches Does GMK Wear?
In the Who Wears What section, we’re leaving politicians’ wrists behind for a more modern, more macho one: GMK’s. The Monaco-based influencer, first known for his outlandish cars, is just…
How the Royal Oak Upended the Watch Industry
An aesthetic shock in a display window that was far too well-behaved In the early 1970s, Swiss watchmaking entered a turbulent spell. Quartz watches from Asia upended the market…
Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière: Hands-On Review, Chiming and Spectacular Luminescence
The Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière doesn’t merely tell the time—it whispers it to us, thanks to a mechanical whim that chimes the passing of every hour. And once…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Watches
In the Who wears what? section, we have already looked at the watches worn by historical figures as controversial as Stalin, as well as the alleged watch of Adolf Hitler.…
How to Read a Tachymeter on a Sports Watch?
The tachymeter: from practical function to identity marker On a sports watch, the tachymeter is that detail that catches your eye even before you’ve started the chronograph: a numbered…
Why the Santos de Cartier Is Considered the First Modern Watch
A watch born of a very real problem: telling the time mid-flight Before it becomes an object of desire, a watch is first and foremost a solution. And the…
Carlingue Aviation 01: Take Flight
Aviation watches were not born to charm. They were designed to be read instantly, in sometimes extreme conditions, where mistakes are not an option. It is this functional constraint that…