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How to factor romance into your choice of Valentine’s Day watch

12.02.20

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How to factor romance into your choice of Valentine’s Day watch

Valentine’s Day is a tricky one, because there can sometimes be tremendous pressure to pick the love of your life the perfect gift. You know,…

Look Mum, no hands – the best watches without hands in 2018

Lists

23.07.19

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Look Mum, no hands – the best watches without hands in 2018

For as long as time has been indicated with hands on a dial, horologists have been hunting for different ways to communicate time. Contemporarily, this…

Pop Culture

02.07.19

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6 of the best women’s watches of 2018

Half a decade ago, Time+Tide published a story, citing that by 2020 there would be more female millionaires in Britain than male, leaving it to the…

LIST: 14 of the best women’s watches, just in time for Mother’s Day

Lists

11.05.19

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LIST: 14 of the best women’s watches, just in time for Mother’s Day

Editor’s note: Sunday in Australia is Mother’s Day, so we thought it was the perfect time to share these 14 excellent women’s watches from NOW,…

LIST: The 16 winning watches of 2018, according to the GPHG

Lists

09.11.18

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LIST: The 16 winning watches of 2018, according to the GPHG

If you care about watches, Geneva is the place to be right now. The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (better known to its friends as…

LIST: 5 utterly useless complications and why we love them

Lists

27.09.18

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LIST: 5 utterly useless complications and why we love them

The most straightforward definition of the word complication is “a difficulty”. But not to state the obvious, nothing is simple about being complicated. And as…

LIST: Auction madness – 6 watches you could have bought at the Jerry Lewis estate sale for less than $10k

Lists

10.07.18

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LIST: Auction madness – 6 watches you could have bought at the Jerry Lewis estate sale for less than $10k

Famed comedian, actor and director Jerry Lewis, AKA the King of Comedy, died in August 2017 at the age of 91. He left behind the…

Lists

25.05.18

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LIST: Somewhere over the rainbow – 8 of the year’s best gem-set watches

There’s no point sugar-coating it. Gem-set watches aren’t for everyone. For one, all that ice racks up the price tag (so much so that all…

INSIGHT: The craft of Van Cleef & Arpels

Watch Reviews

15.02.18

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INSIGHT: The craft of Van Cleef & Arpels

Van Cleef & Arpels have long been recognised as one of the world’s most creative high jewellery houses. Taking inspiration from nature, magic and fairy…