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Getting colour coordinated with the Audemars Piguet CODE 11.59 collection
Dive Watch Fundamentals – How Blancpain gave birth to the modern dive watch
5 vintage finds you can pick up on eBay right now
What does the new 2021 Omega Speedmaster 3861 Collection really mean for buyers?
RECOMMENDED READING: Enter the secret labs of COSC and learn their secrets
VIDEO: Was the Casio G-Shock GA2100-1A ‘CasiOak’ the hottest watch of 2020?
Letter from the Editor: 2020 in review
RECOMMENDED WATCHING: The most complicated Rolex available today
Ever considered buying a watch on eBay? Here’s why it’s now 100% risk-free
RECOMMENDED READING: The New York Times pulls back the iron curtain on Raketa
NEWS: Hublot has perfect 2020 vision in their new e-warranty system
We got it dead wrong. So, which colour Rolex OP 36 2020 models sold for the highest price at the recent Phillips Hong Kong Watch Auction?
11 DAYS OF LONDONERS: Day 5 – Stu Finlayson, Founder of Farer Watches
FRIDAY WIND DOWN (London Evening News Edition): Issue #3 of our mag is out, 2021 Club strap released, and our UK reveal draws closer…
Issue #3 of NOW Magazine is now available: F-U COVID, we did one just to spite you
Mugger sentenced to 9 years in prison for stealing £692K RM 69 Erotic Watch
Place your bets! Which Rolex Oyster Perpetual 2020 dial colour will sell for the highest price at the Hong Kong Watch Auction later today?
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Why collaboration is King, to the Moon and back, and the purity of the Portugieser
Our 5 picks from the (crazy) Longines Black Friday sale
The most expensive watches sold on eBay in 2020
RECOMMENDED READING: Patek Philippe production is down 30% due to COVID-19
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: SIHH 2021 is already cancelled, Cartier is feeling very generous and it’s a special birthday for Jack Heuer
Hamilton Vs Hamilton:  F1 superstar Lewis Hamilton loses legal battle with Hamilton watches
If you own a Cartier Pasha – second hand included – you can have it serviced by Cartier FOR FREE. Nix. Nothing.
Watches & Wonders 2021 is cancelled, so here are our affordable favourites from last year (sob)
3 watches you can get from the brand new Jaeger-LeCoultre Melbourne boutique right now
Aussie brand Bausele is the official watchmaker of the Royal Australian Air Force Centenary watch, and it’s their best collection yet
We watched every minute of the GPHG 2020 so you don’t have to. And you owe us a beer, it wasn’t amazing…
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: The GPHG winners were what?! 007 is confirmed to be a woman, and we look at some pretty Hublot pastels
Lashana Lynch has confirmed she is the new 007 in “No Time to Die”, and boy does she wear the 007 Edition of the 300M with style…
Phillips auction battle of Swiss vs. Japanese handmade haute horology – which is better value?
Boston goes 50% bigger than Vegas with largest Rolex showroom in America to open next month
Did this couple really just use a six-year-old to steal an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore?
RECOMMENDED READING: Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Sydney shark attacks, steel sports watches and the Serica 4512
Found a Patek or a Daytona at a suspiciously low price? It could be stolen stock from Amsterdam Vintage Watches. Check the serial numbers here…
Patek Philippe online sales have not kicked in the crisis, and 3 other key takeaways from Eric Ku’s lecture for the HSNY
“The grey market is a creation of the brands, and they need to address it.” The virtual Horology Forum 2020, brought to you by Dubai Watch Week, kicks off with a bang
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: In celebration of the people behind the Time+Tide scenes, including our proofreader Jeff
Watch, out! The Cartiers that might cost a career
If you missed out on the Sydney-based WatchFest 2020, prepare for SOMO (the Sadness Of Missing Out)
Design a Seiko 5 Sports online with the Custom Watch Beatmaker, get lots of votes, and see it released by Seiko
“We thought the world needed a luxury Swatch watch.” Explosive Jean-Claude Biver interview tells the Hublot story like never before
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Jean-Claude Biver tells the full Hublot story and WatchFest fires!
The “inexplicable insanity” that underscores the story of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak
Would you pay $13,000USD for a Speedy that’s spent 188 days in space? Because that’s the current online bid…
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: You need to know your ideal lug to lug size, or you’re doing watches wrong
WatchFest Australia 2020 is going ahead against all odds, because community matters more than ever
Good morning, London! Time and Tide Watches opens first international office in the UK, to be run by former GQ Australia Editor, Mike Christensen
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: A Seiko you can buy for a good cause, a Longines Tuxedo, and our GPHG winners wish list
The baby blue and black Bamford G-SHOCK 5610 sold out in 6 minutes, which sucks, because it’s great
From Bruno Mars to Jay-Z: celebrities’ most staggering acts of watch-giving generosity
RECOMMENDED READING: How Hermès got away from LVMH – and thrived
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: Sorry, it’s short this week, I’m thirsty …
Sex toys, murder victims and cocaine: the dark side of the Apple Watch
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: The Thank You Edition (read and see if you get a mention)
3 explosive quotes from emerging industry leader and Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin about Rolex, Baselworld and the future
The Rolex that got away. The now discontinued rhodium Oyster Perpetual 39mm that I will never own…
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: How to steal a watch, and how Rolex stole the show (with 1mm)
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: The return of the event and the revenge of the nerds
New study: your smartwatch is making you more insecure
Gael Monfils just smashed the sh*t out of a $500k USD Greubel Forsey GMT Sport
FRIDAY WIND DOWN: The best watches of Scandinavia, exhibitions in New York and a new collection for the skies