The automatic movement - something we consider normal in modern watches - was still an experimental concept during the 1940s. And brands had to work around the gold-standard Rolex patents, which me...

Meet the third generation of Patek Philippe automatic watches. And not any ordinary movement as the caliber 350 is neither a full-rotor, a bumper, nor a Micro-Rotor. The Caliber 350 is the first se...

Do you know who launched the world's first automatic Triple-Calendar wristwatch...? Movado is one of The traditional Swiss watch manufacturers yet little is known about their pieces and their legac...

The fine decorations on watch movements are just for aesthetics, right? Well, that's not how it all started! Looking through the Centuries we can see that most artisanal techniques we can still fin...

Jaeger-LeCoultre didn't really sell fully assembled watches on a larger scale until... well, until when actually? What timepiece was the grand entrance to the vertically integrated watchmaking stag...

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner - and the newest Omega "Limited Editions" are hitting the stores. Thus, I thought we should take a closer look at the last Century's timepie...

The case maker C.R. Spillmann is the masterful artisan that brought us the very first Oyster cases in 1926 and was ultimately swallowed up by Rolex in the 1980s. However, in between those two impac...

There are literally hundreds of auction houses that sell pre-owned and vintage watches. Worldwide! The good thing is that in our modern era you can simply register for all these auctions and try yo...

Let's recap the last time I felt like a naive idiot with a laptop rather than a watch "expert". It's been auction season in Geneva these last couple of days and it's normal that some of the results...

Patek Philippe is no stranger to the chronograph complication but rather focused on modulating, refining, designing, and finishing some of the most exquisite chronograph watches of the last Century...

Haptics matter as much as aesthetics to me. Sooo have you ever worn a Polyplan? Or a Cintree, a Curvex? The ergonomics are an increasingly important factor in our watch world. It's still an underap...

Did you ever notice that little extra chamfer between the lugs of vintage Datejust and Day-Date models? Did you also notice that you won't find this on steel versions of the same references? I can ...