More articles about: watches

During Watch and Wonders week Audemars Piguet introduced the first iteration of its Marvel Super Hero watch series. The luxury watchmaker’s CEO François-Henry Bennahmias, who is a Marvel fan himself, couldn’t contain his delight in presenting the first Audemars Piguet Royal Oak ...

Tag Heuer has announced a green version of its celebrated Monaco watch. The color, associated with vintage cars and motor racing, is apt.It is being released to mark the brand’s position as official sponsor and timekeeper of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, the ...

It’s the maritime adventurer’s lot: the naming of 'newly discovered' places and things. As in so many other areas, here Captain James Cook had flair. Australasian locations that owe their identities today to the 18th-century explorer include Young Nick’s Head, Cape Foulwind, ...

By way of a closing word on the novelties, innovation, and unabashed luxury from Watches and Wonders, we stop to gawp and point at some of the most ingenious, playful, and occasionally downright mind-bending creations that human ingenuity—and skill—can conjure. You might ...

The minimalist watch is for the man that has no time for bullshit. Life’s complicated enough. The quiet girlfriend is hard to read. The red dot on your nose grows into a pregnant zit. The boss pings you in the middle of ...

We focus on some of the best watches to emerge from our favorite brands, representing all aspects of the watch industry from affordable daily beaters to the pinnacle of technical and aesthetic ingenuity. While the pandemic hindered the flow of new watches ...

'Cocktail watch' is yet another term bandied around with no clear explanation or illumination as to what it actually is (like dress watch, and the even vaguer 'sports' watch). So we'll tell you. A cocktail watch is usually delicate, and almost always feminine ...

Swatch first captured the imagination of the world back in 1983. The Swiss watch brand debuted as a response to what was referred to as the “quartz crisis” of the '70s, when inexpensive Japanese quartz timepieces went head-to-head with classic European mechanical watches.The ...

So blasé has Bulgari become about its signature watch scooping up world records that an official communique from the brand lists its achievements under the headline ‘Octo Finissimo World Record Saga’. It is indeed a weighty and impressive tome.Introduced in 2014 the Octo Finissimo ...