“Chronographs are hard.” – Carole Forestier-Kasapi The first time I visited Cartier’s new manufacture in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, it was in 2008 and the company’s technical director was Carole Forestier-Kasapi. Forestier-Kasapi is now at TAG Heuer, but at the time, her work at Cartier was focused on the inventive complications that formed the Fine Watchmaking Collection, and...

After years of skipping over Japan’s greatest watchmaker, I finally gave in. Now I can’t take it off. I have to start with a confession. I recently bought a Seiko. That isn’t the whole confession. This is my first Seiko. I know, I know, how could that possibly be? Somehow, through my long and winding...

The latest MB Meteor brings the iconic Martin Baker orange case middle to the Meteor family. There are many things in life for which watches are built, which will never be experienced by owners of those watches and while it goes without saying that most pilot’s watch owners are not, and will never be, pilots...

The latest Tambour Taiko says there’s sound in space after all. The Louis Vuitton Tambour Taiko watches get their name from the Japanese taiko drum, which have been used since at least as early as the sixth century, for an enormous range of uses – anything from making announcements, to issuing orders to troops, to...

Sometimes controversial, but worn and loved by many, the Big Bang has become an essential feature of the modern watchmaking landscape. The Big Bang, like the cosmological event after which it was named, is unique and it has also produced a whole plethora of outcomes since the first models were launched all the way back...

The TAG Formula 1 we’ve been waiting for is here. TAG Heuer’s F1 watches were first released in 1986 and since then they have become something of a cult classic. Small by today’s standards, with quartz movements, they were accessible, colorful, and also historically important as the first watches to carry the TAG Heuer name....