Two words, two worlds: why we still confuse chronograph and chronometer In everyday language, “chrono” covers everything. We use it to describe both an interval timer and an extremely accurate…
In our “Who Wears What?” column, we’ve already dissected the wrists of Sébastien Lecornu, Emmanuel Macron, Sarah Knafo, Jordan Bardella, Éric Zemmour and many others besides. It was time to…
When a watch “lives” on the wrist A slight shiver, a secret rustle, sometimes a genuine buzz that seems to travel through the case. Anyone who wears mechanical watches has…
The Invisible Enemy of Watches: Magnetism A watch can survive rain, cold, shocks. But when it comes to magnets, its Achilles’ heel is the balance spring. Exposed to a…
It’s a silent dance you wear on your wrist. An energy born of your movements, passed from one piece of metal to the next, regulated to the hundredth of a…
The red secret at the heart of calibres They barely glint, set like cold stars beneath a movement’s bridge. You often catch them through a sapphire caseback, engraved with…
There are watches made for showing off, and others that have a purpose. The field watch—or montre de terrain in French—belongs to the latter family: honest pieces, built to be…
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,…
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,…
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…
