Watchfinder will be making its first appearance at Watches and Wonders thanks to a partnership with Panerai one of the industry’s most iconic brands. Best known for its cushion-shaped watches...

So of course you’ll have guessed by now that the fourth most popular brand and the subject of this week’s In Focus series is luxury giant Audemars Piguet. For better or worse, Audemars Piguet...

Bringing something old and dead back to life is a risky business. Just ask Dr Frankenstein. When Audemars Piguet, a brand synonymous with the angular, seventies style of the ever-popular Royal...

When it comes to chronographs, the word ‘Valjoux’ comes with a dazzling aura of respect and reverence. Why? Because the list of watch brands that have relied on this legendary movement maker...

Nestled on the Swiss-German border in the town of Schaffhausen, the International Watch Company has been making dedicated pilot’s watches for almost a century, the latest being this, the Pilot’s...

Ten years ago, if you wanted a chronograph with an in-house, automatic movement for mid-level money—well, it was the Rolex Daytona and not a whole lot else. The Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement...

Everyone wants a Rolex Daytona. Everyone, even if they won't quite admit it to themselves. Where other watches sit in categories with similar contemporaries, the Daytona has somehow forged a...

Carbon is the sixth most abundant element in the universe. It makes up the thinnest material in the world, graphene (measured in a single sheet at 0.15 nanometres, 650,000 times thinner than...

It doesn't seem all too long ago that U-Boat was just a fledgling brand, offering a uniquely styled yet simple case with a basic quartz movement in it. Like many young upstarts, they had a concept...