Exploring Grand Seiko’s range, from humble hi-beats to high-horology heavyweights. Welcome back to another installment of High and Low – The column where we explore the full range of a brand’s catalog, from its most affordable to its highest-priced pieces, from both our pre-owned and new offerings. What started as a simple exercise has become...

Exploring three exceptional timepieces that redefine the Go Anywhere, Do Anything ethos. The GADA (Go Anywhere, Do Anything) watch is a staple topic of horological journalism. Writing about it feels like a rite of passage for anyone in this field—a task as expected as a Rotten Tomatoes review for the latest blockbuster. It’s tempting to...

When amassing your watch collection, buyer’s remorse is essentially inevitable, but there are a few watches out there that will never leave you disappointed. I have always said that one of the hardest lessons when growing up is learning how to cope when your expectation of reality does not align with reality. This happens in...

From Rolex to Omega and all the alloys in between. “This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life, I’ve been in love with its color… its brilliance, its divine heaviness.” — Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger (1964) “I love gold! The look of it, the smell of it, the taste of it, the texture!” — Goldmember, Austin...

Hindsight from the 21st century tells us that the transition from jewelry artisans to watchmakers as a result of the Protestant Reformation was a very good thing. Geneva remains the spiritual home of the watch industry and high-jewelry techniques have been integrated with watches in something of a historical throwback to where the industry began....

As the end of summer approaches, allow me to offer some belated advice. This summer has been, in a word, hot. Very, very hot. In fact, it’s been hot in a record-setting fashion. Scientists are projecting that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, and that wouldn’t be the first heat record of the...