A sacred lake inspires a very special Spring Drive. If you want to get from Tokyo to points west and south, you have a couple of options. The first is to drive or take the train along the coast (the Shinkansen runs from Tokyo to Nagoya) but that route keeps you away from the interior....

The Chronoscope puts the three classic chronograph scales on one dial. The word “chronograph” is derived from Greek (like all truly great words) and means, more or less, “time writer” which was a perfectly fine name for some of the earliest chronographs – they were what’s called inking chronographs and they worked by putting a...

The complex character behind sublime simplicity. If your tastes tend towards the classical in watches and watchmaking, this might not be your ultimate grail, but then it again, it just might be. This is the Vacheron Constantin Historiques Ultra Fine 1955, one of the thinnest watches ever made, with the ultra thin caliber 1003, just...

The Art Of The Wow Factor. Today for A Watch A Week, we have what I think is one of the most visually striking and unusual watches of at least the last 20 years. The watch in question is the Angelus U10 Tourbillon Lumière, which was introduced by Angelus in 2015 in the year that...

A bigger, bolder, better world. One of Greubel Forsey’s most distinctive complications is the GMT complication, which the company handles in an unusual way. GF introduced the GMT complication in 2011, in a watch with a 24º inclined tourbillon, and with a three dimensional miniature planet Earth which rotates once every 24 hours. The watch...

The split to end all splits. In 2004, A. Lange & Söhne released a remarkable watch that was not just a ten-day wonder – over 20 years later, the Double Split remains one of the most intricate, ingenious, and beautiful chronograph wristwatches ever produced. The Double Split was a rare example of a true first...