We’ll gladly cop to being fans of skeletonized watches, and the crew at Corum has come up with a real dandy example of the species. The Corum Bridges Golden Bridge Rectangle features, oddly enough, a...
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Watches are great for telling time on smaller scales, but when it comes to tracking longer durations, nothing beats a calendar. And few calendars are as old or as popular as the Chinese Zodiac. So...
Few things do a better job of notifying the world that you possess a large quantity of legal tender than wearing stuff that’s actually made with legal tender. Sure, clothing and accessories that incorporate money...
Swiss watchmaker HYT has made quite the name for itself in the industry, due in large part to its ingenious bellows system powering a liquid-filled ring that takes the place of hands for telling time....
Confession time: We’re not huge fans of fully transparent watches. With no colors, finishes or distinctive materials comprising their cases, they kind of tend to run together to the untrained eye. But, sometimes, a see-through...
Although he’s not spoken about in the same reverential terms as more colorful contemporaries like Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell or Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost has more Formula 1 world championships (four) and more grand prix...
Like any business, Chopard exists to make money. However, that doesn’t mean it lacks an appreciation for the trade in which it plies its craft (read: making watches). In fact, it has gone so far...
In the world of timekeeping, accuracy is everything. Granted, no mechanical clockwork can approach the precision of an atomic clock, but that hasn’t stopped watchmakers from trying to get that little bit closer. And the...
The Bronze Age was the era in which humankind took its first big steps toward civilization-as-we-know-it. However, we’re guessing no grandchild of hunter-gatherers could have foreseen there would someday be a mechanical means of tracking...
TAG Heuer (and before that, just Heuer) has produced multiple watches over the decades that could legitimately be called icons. One of those would be the Monaco, originally launched in 1969 with a square case…the...