WATCHES & WONDERS 2024
This video is a must-watch for any Royal Oak Offshore fans, as it breaks down the role of the collection and the crazy places it's…
The Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung man, artist and professional surfer explains the significance of his collaboration with Longines.
“GET YOUR ASS MOVING, BITCH”, says the dial of a smartwatch with the pedometer needle pointing at zero. “Up yours!”, another watch playfully informs its…
The next stop in our Watches & Wonders CEO interview journey is Roger Dubuis, a brand notable for their big switch from super-classical to Hyper…
At last year’s Watches & Wonders, Jaeger-LeCoultre dazzled attendees with their Stellar Odyssey collection accompanied by a mesmerising stall. This year, they calmed us back…
Walking into the IWC booth at this year’s Watches & Wonders, you were instantly transported into the 1970s, surrounded by iconic shapes from design geniuses…
Grand Seiko has attracted a wide base of watch enthusiasts to their products. Previously an underdog trying to break through in regions outside of Japan,…
Of all the people we get to interview in my line of work, the most interesting people to sit down with are the watch designers…
Editor’s Note: Back at Watches & Wonders, Zach had the chance to sit down with Baume & Mercier CEO David Chaumet. In recent years, the brand…
When Matthias Breschan speaks you could swear that he’d founded Longines 189 years ago, such is the passion that the Austrian CEO has for the…
In many ways, the goings-on of a watch brand are heavily guarded secrets to us collectors. Yes, we can guesstimate what is happening behind those…
This is the fifth video in a series of more conversational, and less directly watch-focused, videos that aim to provide richer telling of the Audemars…
I’m going to put it out there and say there is no more charismatic person in today’s watch world than Fears managing director Nicholas Bowman-Scargill.…
It started, like so many admirable ideas, in a pub garden over a few pints on a sunny day. Nicholas Bowman-Scargill, the Managing Director of…
Watch enthusiasm is initially generated by the product – there’s no doubt that the art of watchmaking and the many resulting creations are the main…
The watch industry’s persistent categorising of watches by gender is back on the agenda. And well and truly in frame is the pointlessness of the…
When we think of watchmakers, we immediately think of European and Japanese artisans. But to ensure our watches remain in tip-top shape, watchmakers around the…
Most owners of a platinum Rolex would be fearful of tampering with such an insanely valuable watch. One false move, after all, could eventuate in…
Roni Madhvani is one of the biggest vintage watch aficionados on the planet. His Instagram page – @roni_m_29 – is the stuff of legend and…
Editor’s note: A few months back, we announced that former Editor of GQ Australia, Mike Christensen, was to be our first European Editor. In this series,…
Editor’s note: ‘11 Days of Londoners’ continues with a UK-based microbrand you likely know and love, none other than Farer Watches co-founder Stu Finlayson. The…
Editor’s note: A few months back, we announced that former Editor of GQ Australia, Mike Christensen, was to be our first European Editor. In this series…
Limited-edition collaborations in the watch industry are growing in popularity in 2020. We wanted to dig a bit deeper and get some behind-the-scenes insight on…
We spoke to Jean-Claude Biver recently for an upcoming feature-length video, and while we were on Zoom, the conversation turned to the pandemic. We took…
Cometh the crisis, cometh the man. Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of Bulgari, has grown in stature yet again over the last six months as Bulgari has…
There is an endless succession of fads, curiosities and sensations on social media. @horomariobro is not one of them. And if you need to stop now…
The Longines Spirit release is a totally new collection this year, something that is already very exciting in and of itself, but also because it’s…
“I haven’t read your article yet about which action stars are wearing which watches,” IWC CEO Chris Grainger-Herr begins the interview by saying. “I just…
The Rolex brand is older than the city of Canberra, a fact that shows not only Australia’s youth, but, by contrast, just how old watchmaking…
Aldis Hodge and I are in an Uber, in Sydney. I am in the front seat. Aldis is in the back, with his sketch-book out,…
Clive Cussler, famed novelist and maritime explorer, died on February 24, aged 88. The writer was a larger-than-life character, and his series of novels featuring…
Google Maps has done a good job of ruining the job of the safari-suited explorer, taking crystal clear pictures of the entire surface of the…
Of all the Swiss watch manufacturers, Audemars Piguet has had one of the longest and most storied histories since their founding in the Vallée de…
A chronograph is an important part of any watch collection, but the decision regarding which brand or model to buy can be a tough one.…
Harry Fane is one of the world’s foremost experts in Cartier, not just watches but the entire gamut of objets d’art that have been produced…
Vertex is a brand with a wonderful history. Founded in 1916 by Claude Lyons, the brand produced watches for Allied troops in the Second World…
Look, full disclosure. We did not know (or indeed pay) Sherwood to give us this particular answer. But having said that, it’s quite nice to…
Editor’s note: In the run-up to the horse racing season in Australia, we thought we’d have a look at a brand with a long history…
Editor’s note: Many executives in the Swiss watch industry are boring. They went to finance school, and they sell watches by looking at a balance…
Today’s entrant into the ‘Every Watch Tells a Story’ hall of fame is Dale. It turns out that Dale has a bit of a thing…
Editor’s note: This is a throwback to the time we chatted to one of the best-looking blokes in Melbourne about his (then) new Montblanc 1858…
So it’s a little bit weird to be writing an intro blurb for my own ‘Every Watch Tells a Story’ video, but there you go.…
“We were initially thinking about buying a watch for me for a wedding piece, but the thing about buying for a watch collector is that…
In the first episode of a new Time+Tide video series called ‘Every Watch Tells A Story’ — in which we ask people to choose a watch…
Editor’s note: If you spend more than a few minutes in that wonderful (and terrifying) thing that is the watch community, you’ll quickly become familiar…
Editor’s note: At SIHH 2017 I had the chance to chat with James Marsden, an IWC ambassador. At that time, I was fairly obsessed with Westworld. I…
Those who know Champs know that he has a special affinity for Audemars Piguet. And like many others, that fondness for the Swiss manufacturer began with nothing…
I’d like to say I remember the first post we ever published on Time+Tide. But I have no idea. Was it a ‘hello world’ that…
Self-described ‘WIS Globetrotter’, @Horonation likes to keep his identity secret — preferring the moniker ‘Mr X’. To say he’s serious about his watches would just about be the…
At Baselworld this year, I met Mr Biver for the very first time. And I can say, with complete conviction, that he was every bit…
TAG Heuer have a long history in motorsport. Heuer chronographs adorned the dashboards of now priceless Porsches and Ferraris that were being rallied in the…
This week’s Who to Follow is a little closer to home than usual. Justin Mastine-Frost has been writing for us on and off over the…
Time is a funny thing. The PR schedule was fast and furious when Longines Ambassador of Elegance Aishwarya Rai Bachchan held court at her Four…
A little while ago, we ran our annual reader survey, giving entrants the chance to walk away with an Oris timepiece – a choice between the…
A few weeks ago, on a wet and gloomy morning, I made my way to the 2016 Motorclassica, held at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building –…
[su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/192869004″] It started in Tokyo. We were over there with Bulgari to celebrate the launch of their first ever watch, the Bulgari Roma, released…
Some watches always get the double tap when they show up in our Instagram feed. One such model is Glenn’s (AKA @syn_chronus) ridiculously lovely Breguet…
Editor’s Note: It started with a post on LinkedIn by Richard Branson, which was titled ‘Great Beards come with Great Responsibility‘. My first thought was…
Editor’s Note: As we head towards the Oscars in a few days, I can’t help but think of that time I spoke to the man who…
[su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/141790017″ width=”800″] [/su_vimeo] As we said in Part 1, the Richard Mille Erotic Tourbillon was the most talked about watch of Watches & Wonders,…
Sorry for the spoiler, but James Cameron, the director of the two biggest box office films of all time (Avatar and Titanic) has only ever…
Ok, so the boat wasn’t exactly capsizing. But it was rocking. And the almost unlistenable audio of the interview confirms it was very, very windy…
Matthew Miller first came to our attention with his ingenious take on a street style blog, which he calls the ‘Daily Fashion Project’. Rather than…
Pierrick Boyer is a master pastry chef living, in the words of Frank Ocean, one sweet life. He is excited daily by the act of…
Panerai Central is a force to be reckoned within the massive online world of Panerai lovers, AKA Paneristi. Founded by Khalil Ghorbani and David Tsai…
