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While it may not be the longest-running brand relationship in the sport, Gerald Charles has made a serious commitment to tennis over the years. Through a variety of different iterations and colorways, its unique, baroque shaped Maestro design has become a serious sporting time…
One of the most common complaints in the watch community concerns current pricing. Indeed, the COVID-19 period affected the prices of luxury items. Meet Deutsche Uhrenmanufaktur Glashütte GmbH, or DUG, which claims to bring the traditional craftsmanship of Glashütte watchmakin…
Retrograde complications, in which a hand sweeps across an arc or sector and snaps back to zero, are prized for their theatrical jumping display. While retrograde displays have been around for centuries and were popularised by watchmakers like Lépine and Breguet, a surprisingl…
Storytelling has long been a powerful way to connect watch enthusiasts with a timepiece, but only a few watches immediately capture the spirit of an era. While many brands lean on obscure historical tales, the Ebel Sport Classic Chronograph has a wealth of stories that embody…
Chopard claims that it was the first to combine diamonds with steel in 1993 with its Happy Sport line of watches, based on the Happy Diamonds collection that it introduced in 1976. What the heck was going on in the ’70s that yielded so many amazing and entertaining firsts? And…
Autumn is a special time here in Toronto, and we locals are very aware of this. On each of the three mornings of the Timepiece Show, one could see runners bypassing the city’s busiest street and parents pushing strollers with one hand, holding a seasonal warm beverage filled w…
For the most part, Bell & Ross watches are immediately recognisable, but the Radar series holds the prize. The concept first appeared in 2010 with the BR-01 Radar, replacing conventional hands with concentric discs inspired by aviation radar screens. A year later, the BR-01 Re…
What is rarer, a shooting star or two Seiko Astron GPS Solar Dual-Time Chronograph 2026 Limited Editions? That’s an easy question, right? Well, I hate to break it to you, but maybe not. Shooting stars or meteors aren’t rare at all; roughly 25 million visible meteors enter Eart…
We’re at an interesting time when it comes to the dialogue in the watch community on vintage inspired watches. Watches that make explicit references to the past are simply less common now than they were a decade ago, or even 4 or 5 years ago. I’ve long believed that a maturing…
Last Friday, the Patek Philippe Watch Art Grand Exhibition opened its doors in Milan, and at the moment of opening, more than 45,000 people had already registered to visit the exhibition. The Grand Exhibition in Milan is the seventh and by far the biggest of all Grand Exhibiti…