First and foremost, I’m a lover of mechanical watches—but I’m not dogmatic: I also have my own little collection of quartz watches. And when it comes to changing the battery,…
The Oyster obsession: when a watch must first and foremost survive At Rolex, everything begins with a promise sealed in 1926: the Oyster, a waterproof, airtight watch built to take…
The quiet obviousness of a bare dial You catch it at the edge of a cuff: a near-blank disc of colour, crossed by just two hands. No numerals. No…
Why Start with an Automatic Choosing your first automatic watch is more than a purchase: it’s a rite of passage. You discover an object that lives without a battery,…
Two philosophies of time On the wrist, everything begins with a beat. The crisp, regular beat of a seconds hand snapping forward on a quartz watch. Or the hushed,…
The obsession with thinness, reinvented by hand Some watches tell the time, and others tell a pact between the eye, the hand and the material. This ultra-thin, hand-wound piece, heir…
Why manual winding still captivates In a world where everything is becoming automated, manual winding remains a profoundly human gesture. It’s the moment the mechanics wake up at your…
After dissecting Emmanuel Macron’s watches, that of Éric Zemmour and the much-publicised wrist of Jordan Bardella, it was only logical to continue our round-table of France’s new right. This time,…
Recognising the real thing: a story of details In shop windows and on the wrists of heirs, the Swiss watch is a language. It speaks of precision, patience, and the…
Transparent charm: why skeleton watches fascinate To lay a movement bare is to tell the most intimate story of watchmaking. A skeleton watch is not merely a stylistic exercise: it…
Progress in watchmaking is rarely a thunderclap. It’s a breath. An improvement that seeps into workshops, slips beneath dials, and reshapes our relationship with time without fanfare. The silicon…
Flyback: the art of restarting time in a single gesture On a conventional chronograph, the rule is immutable: start, stop, then reset. The flyback chronograph—also known as “return-to-flight”—upends that…
In our “Who Wears What?” column—historical dictators edition—after Hitler and his watch allegedly sold at auction, today we turn to the moustachioed comrade of the Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin. Between…
A mechanical heart beating on the wrist At a time when the world syncs itself to notifications, the automatic watch remains one of the few everyday objects whose accuracy…
Emmanuel Macron has this peculiarity: he seems to have, on his wrist, a watch collection more substantial than his approval ratings. And it’s clearly not by buying these watches that…
In our “Who wears what?” column, after Zemmour and Hanouna, it’s time for a politician: Jordan Bardella. Beyond his carefully crafted speeches and impeccably pressed shirts, the president of the…
