THE HOME OF WATCH CULTURE
Coming into the world of watch collecting can be confusing for a beginner, as watch enthusiasts have developed a small lexicon of their own. Although…
If you ask the average person to name a watch brand, they’ll most likely say Rolex. Such is the power of the company which arguably…
The Japanese art of Kintsugi embraces flaws and accidents by repairing cracks with gold. And while that has almost nothing to do with Richard Hammond’s…
There’s been much hand-wringing of late about the slow death of traditional men’s formalwear. The writing was already on the sartorial wall in 2019 when,…
Welcome to The Icons, a series where we take a horological deep dive into the most legendary watches of all time. We’ll delve into the…
Allow me to preface this piece with some full disclosure. I purchased this watch with my own money. It isn’t on loan from anyone and…
Editor’s note: Nominative determinism is the theory that people are drawn to jobs that match their names. Researchers believe this is due to “implicit egotism” –…
EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of Time+Tide’s recent website revamp, our tag-line changed to “The Home Of Watch Culture”. But this was no retro-fit job. That…
When assessing any dive watch, comparisons to the iconic Rolex Submariner are inevitably going to pop up. But the other day in the Time+Tide office,…
Matt. I hear you. You made your case. But I would never, ever, remove the bracelet from my Rolex Submariner ref. 114060 – or any…
One of our traditions at Time+Tide is a wristcheck on on the weekly editorial call. Last week, it was my 114060 Rolex Sub on a…
The surge in popularity of Tudor seems unstoppable. The realisation that Small is the New Big has made the Black Bay 58 a real favourite…
There’s a line usually attributed to Albert Einstein that claims that “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Unfortunately,…
All too often we discuss watches as assets. Usually when we hear about people selling pieces from their collection it is part of an effort…
Rolex is a brand that some collectors love to hate. No one is disputing they are a brand that makes some of the best watches…
Tudor had an incredibly strong showing at Watches & Wonders this year, with the collecting community almost unanimously praising their releases. While the models introduced…
For a 27-year-old who isn’t the son of an oligarch, Zach Blass has amassed a serious watch collection. Highlights in his watch box include an…
You’ll have heard this about vintage watches before: tread carefully when you have these pieces serviced and who you allow to work on them. With…
Before we dig into the Rolex Submariner 114060, I want to set the record straight on Submariner nomenclature. There is no such thing as the…
There’s a strong argument that the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was the first real diver’s watch of its kind… and that’s because it was. It’s also…
When you’re a 25-year-old footballer earning upwards of £100,000 a week, a standard luxury watch can feel a little pedestrian. As Esquire UK’s Finlay Renwick…
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,…
Rolex watches are a universal status symbol, and among the most recognisable luxury items on the planet. The craze over their timepieces has never been…
If you’ve got $1mUSD to build a watch collection in 2020, you’re used to the finer things in life. But what would you do if…
As a collection grows, at times it means a collector needs to be prepared to trade or sell one of their pieces in order to…
Rolex fakes have existed for a very long time. But where it used to be pretty easy to spot an impostor – from the dull…
Random acts of kindness are all very well. But at Time+Tide, we prefer our gestures of mind-blowing generosity to come in a horological format. From…
Now that Rolex has released watches and ended that dreadful rumour that they were sitting 2020 out, the important work begins. Nicknaming them. The one…
Shock. That’s been the general consensus for the last few days among our enthusiast community. Rolex has just unveiled the all-new Rolex Submariner Date 41mm…
I swear we didn’t collaborate on it. It was pure and unintended serendipity. The two most popular stories this week on Watchville (an app you…
Eric Ku is the kind of watch collector who does it his way. If he sees the bezel of another watch that better matches the…
The launch of any new Rolex model this year is a hugely exciting event, but the complete overhaul of the Submariner collection is a moment…
Green is known to be a special colour for Rolex. In recent eras, to buy a new Rolex sports watch that had any parts fabricated…
Editor’s note: This week we are taking a look at the brand new Omega Seamaster Diver 300M 007 Edition that is set to hit screens…
You’re washing your hands multiple times a day. You’re trying to social distance wherever possible. You’re taking such precautions in order to minimise the potential…
Having moved house last year, I finally got around to collecting the last remaining items from our storage facility last weekend. All that was left…
Ghosts are well known for haunting people. They leave people terrified. Too scared to leave their bedrooms at night. This ghost bezel Tudor Submariner ref…
A little variety in life goes a long way. Nobody wants to see roads full of the same car, or hear the same three songs…
Smith & Singer (formerly Sotheby’s Australia) are hosting their first watch and jewellery auction of the year this week, featuring a smattering of interesting watches,…
I still get lost in the details of the Rolex Submariner that was my first serious watch. The proportions of its features seem divinely inspired,…
Editor’s note: While our daily work at Time+Tide revolves around new models, this is not – in the main – how most of you experience…
Editor’s note: ‘Modding’ a watch is not a trend in watchmaking, it is a trope. It has, and always will be, a part of the…
When you think celebrities and timepieces, most people with an inkling about watch collecting would throw up the same names – Mark Wahlberg, Ellen DeGeneres,…
This weekend we were lucky enough to be visited by the fantastic team from the Horological Society of New York, who were in Australia offering…
This week on Great ’Grams, we’ve got a tennis superstar, a fully custom wristwatch by George Daniels, and a southpaw Rolex Day-Date, and more. The…
“Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there,” wrote Steve Davidson in…
This weekend, I wore my Swatch Sistem51 Hodinkee Generation 1986 and went out in search of what other like-minded individuals had decided to attach to…
Martin Scorsese’s latest crime film, The Irishman, is released on Netflix in Australia on November 27. It is based on the book I Heard You…
A relationship with a watch can be a complex one, fraught with the tensions between longing and expectation, and the quotidian reality that it is…
To the uninitiated, it may come as a surprise to learn that watches can actually do a fair bit more than merely tell you what…
Editor’s note: A little while back, old mate Becks did some promo videos with his watch brand of choice – Tudor. Turns out that Mr…
Editor’s note: Jerry Seinfeld has dropped another series of the excellent Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, so we thought we’d repost Dan’s wrap from last…
Editor’s note: People love seeing the insides of a Rolex. Perhaps it’s because of their popularity or perhaps it’s the fact that their insides are…
For many, the Rolex Submariner is the watch. The default, the archetype. In some ways the watch has transcended its original function and become a…
OK, so on the surface this story is nice and simple. Philip McColl, a sailor who had his engraved Rolex Submariner (a commemoration of his…
Editor’s note: Most of Rolex’s new releases are shown to the press and make it into the catalogue. Sometimes, though, they don’t. The gem-set Rolex…
Editor’s note: Daniel, who originally wrote this thorough analysis of the inflated prices people will pay for watches connected to famous people, is a numbers…
Editor’s note: It’s 2019, and along with the feeling that drone-delivered pizza is imminent, many people are also experiencing some form of existential apocalyptic angst.…
Pitching any ‘best of’ list is always more effective when you have very strict parameters and are forced to think sideways to come up with…
Congratulations. You’ve decided to join one of the premier families in the watchmaking universe. That first decision to buy Rolex is seen by many as a…
Editor’s note: Timekeeping standards are suddenly cool again. Omega has been steadily touting the benefits of their Master Chronometer certification, Patek has their own standards,…
A little while ago, Tudor shared two short videos with their premier ambassador, Mr David Beckham, that looked at two of his Tudor watches. And…
I don’t think we’d be telling anyone anything new by saying vintage is sooo hot right now. Price escalation, predominantly driven by the vintage Rolex…
September was very much a mix of cars and watches, which understandably go hand in hand. The strongest commonality between the two hobbies? The collectors…
Editor’s note: A couple of days ago I announced that Sotheby’s would be auctioning 44 watches from the collection of the late great Robin Williams.…
This month was an interesting one as far as spotting goes, including an unexpected Rolex Submariner, a rare vintage Tudor, an obscure Heuer chronograph, and…
If you love dive watches, we probably don’t need to introduce Jason Heaton. He’s a man living the dream, a freelance writer who writes about watches…
That’s right, a Rolex Submariner owned and gifted by the King of Cool will go under the hammer at Phillips auction house in New York…
There was a lot of mystery surrounding this piece when it was pulled out of a large green box during our appointment with Rolex at…
Editors note: This week’s Who To Follow is the result of a mild obsession Andy and I had with the Blamo! podcast, which, if you’re…
The power of ‘celebrity’ is not a new concept. As far back as the ancient pharaohs, celebrities have been put on a pedestal (sometimes literally)…
Editor’s note: Matt Hranek’s now sold-out book, A Man and His Watch, is one of the real standouts of the watch year, a beautiful and…
In this extra long edition of Who to Follow, Andy speaks to the exceptionally well-dressed Gary about life, work, finding the right watch, and how…
Every generation or so has its own particular flavour of apocalyptic angst. From mutually assured destruction to pandemic plagues or even rogue asteroids. Living in…
Bear with me this week as I go a little off script. This week’s Wind Down is less about watches and more about all the…
Last month I celebrated a particularly significant anniversary. I’ve spent 12 happy months with the Rolex Submariner ref. 116610LV – better known as ‘The Hulk’.…
A few years ago I attended a talk called, ‘How to Start a Collection’. The focus was on vintage rather than modern and the speaker…
This month really flew by, which, going by the past six months, is the new standard. It started with a quick visit from @Nikokav who…
Editor’s Note: Last week I shared an opinion piece on why I’m not so into vintage watches these days, so today we’re seeing what the other…
Brandon’s one of the big personalities of the Instagram watch fam, with a revolving collection and crisp photography. He’s one of the guys behind Head2HeadCopycat and calls…
Meet all-round dude and the man who’s looked after the most expensive Tudor ever sold, Justin Sebesta. NAME: Justin Sebesta OCCUPATION: Horologist (watchmaker) at HQ Milton…
The 89th Acadamy Awards will go down in history as one of the more infamous Oscars, largely due to the La La Land/Moonlight mix-up, but…
There are some people who just nail Instagram. Bjoern, also known as @Loevhagen, is one of those people. More specifically, he’s one of the masters…
Sick of the same old in your Insta-feed? We can highly recommend the account of watch lover and leather goods wizard N G Lester of UK-based Noble…
There you have it – another year done and dusted. Now we’re all trying to get our heads around writing 2017 instead of 2106, and…
Ah, December, my favourite month of the year. It’s got the lot: my birthday, Christmas and of course it’s when the Michael Bublé calendar becomes…
Welcome to the party season, aka an obstacle course of events that, between now and February, will test the limits of your wardrobe. All manner…
Editor’s Note: Every single watch journalist in the world has a readymade answer / answers to the question, “So, watch writer, what should I buy…
Watch brands don’t change the world, right? Sure, it’s easy enough to create a limited edition watch that raises funds and awareness, but as for…
Editorial Director of Petrolicious, a site and production house dedicated to showcasing the world’s finest classic cars and their owners, Ted Gushue has an instagam…
A celebration of comics, sci-fi, gaming and general nerdery, Comic-Con International wrapped up yesterday in San Diego – and if you’re not familiar with it, think…
In what seems to be a cruelly ironic twist, the actor that played Tony Soprano in The Sopranos – a HBO TV series that “probably featured…
Editor’s Note: Derek Dier ain’t afraid of no ghosts. So when a Tudor Submariner with a ghost bezel walked into his shop recently he knew…
Disassembling a Rolex Submariner When I was watch editor at GQ, there was one overwhelmingly popular question every single time we called out for questions…
The great thing about a new strap is that it can give your watch a completely new feel and lease on life. Nowhere is the…
One time I dropped it in a big pot of boiling minestrone. I drained the minestrone. The watch was fine. I had to wait a…