One of the most strangely fascinating watches of the year comes from Barrelhand – with a caseback you have to see to believe. Barrelhand is a small independent watch brand based in San Francisco, and the Monolith is a watch which has been years in the making. The brand was founded by Karel Bachand, a...

The Breitling Top Time and the Aston Martin DB5 are back together after sixty years. The Aston Martin DB5 has appeared in a grand total of eight James Bond films since it was first used by 007 in 1965 – in Thunderball, where it became Q Branch’s favorite vehicle for exotic automotive upgrades. Thunderball was also...

The perfect diver’s watch doesn’t exi … Generally speaking, dive watches do not attract superlatives; unless one is introduced, which sets a new record for water resistance, there isn’t a whole lot to say, for several reasons. Of all the types of watches, diver’s watches are the ones where there is the least amount of...

Top picks for different dads: we do the deciding, so you don’t have to. We all know the feeling of dread that comes from waiting until the last minute (except for those rare few of us who actually plan ahead; I don’t). Once a year we get a chance to show Dad he’s in our...

It’s been 26 years since F.P. Journe launched the Chronomètre à Résonance – and the watches are more fascinating than ever. Everyone has their favorites, but if there is a single F.P. Journe watch which that really represents more than any other, what makes his approach to watchmaking unique, it is probably the Chronomètre à...

The accuracy of a watch depends partly on how fast it ticks. Watches are many different things to many different people, but the basic job of any watch is to tell the time. The accuracy of the watch has been improving steadily ever since the first watches developed from small clocks, around the beginning of...