February 4 2019
Out of the blue and against all odds, British upstart Bremont is keeping time everywhere from the cockpits of F-18 Hornets to one-man tents at the South Pole, with a ripping yarn straight from the pages of Boy’s Own. Alex Doak takes to the skies with the impossibly English English brothers.
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January 23 2019
Hublot’s referee smartwatches and LED boards kept time on a thrilling, vintage World Cup this summer – and paired surprisingly well with Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat. Words by Alex Doak.
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December 27 2018
Horology’s fabled perpetual calendar is the one complication every watchmaker wants to master – and as this year’s ultra-thin RD#2 proves, Audemars Piguet is the undisputed master. Alex Doak lifts the dial on a legacy stretching back to the days of sundials.
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December 21 2018
You may be wondering where we’re going with this – after all most watches have three hands, don’t they? But as watchmakers vie for ever-more-complicated bragging rights we’re shining a spotlight on the timepieces proud to keep their dials simple but significant.
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December 14 2018
Add a touch of finesse to your fitness regime by upping your wrist game with a luxury sports watch. Bold and determined designs are at the heart of each of these timepieces, with each vying to come first in the style race.
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December 5 2018
The Tudor Black Bay GMT is the first watch in the Black Bay collection to have a GMT complication. Normal watches tell the time with a minimum of two hands in one time zone but for some people, like the Pan Am pilots who the original GMT’s were designed for by Rolex in 1954, being able to instantly tell the time in more than one time zone is incredibly useful. GMT watches achieve usually achieve this by using an extra hand and in the case of the Black Bay GMT Tudor has added an extra all red snowflake hand.
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November 28 2018
For those in search of a timeless luxury watch that masters the art of precision and style the Hublot Classic Fusion blue chronograph in 42mm promises to impress.
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November 23 2018
Remember those old NASA films of Apollo astronauts training for weightlessness and disorienting g-forces while strapped inside man sized gyroscopes? Well this is the watch for them, it's high-frequency regulatory assembly tumbles inside its own miniature gyroscopic cage. Or as we know it, Zenith’s Defy Zero G.
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October 16 2018
The definitive directory of what you should be wearing on your wrist right now.
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September 27 2018
Every racer’s favourite watchmaker is back in pole position, on board with Aston Martin and F1 partner Red Bull Racing, sporting the British marque’s famed winged badge. Words by Alex Doak.
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September 20 2018
It’s all happening at watchmaking’s frontier, with the smartwatch hitting its stride as a proper luxury product – and needless to say, TAG Heuer is already streaks ahead.
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September 13 2018
We all marvel at the incredible craftsmanship of luxury watches but it’s not often we get to see the action behind the dial. This season don’t just wear your style on your sleeve, show what makes your watch tick with a skeletonised model.
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