One of the most strangely fascinating watches of the year comes from Barrelhand – with a caseback you have to see to believe. Barrelhand is a small independent watch brand based in San Francisco, and the Monolith is a watch which has been years in the making. The brand was founded by Karel Bachand, a...

A very Japanese tribute to the eternal beauty of impermanence. The Citizen is the somewhat confusing name of Citizen’s top tier of luxury watches, although understanding the name and what it means in terms of quality is second nature to serious enthusiasts and collectors interested in high end Japanese watchmaking. Grand Seiko has its technically...

Moser’s latest repeater is a small-batch exercise in visual and audible beauty. The Endeavour Minute Repeater Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton “Cosmic Rain,” as the rather long name suggests, brings together several different aspects of the company’s minute repeater production from the past, but combined in a new way. The Cosmic Rain repeater gets its name from...

The Breitling Top Time and the Aston Martin DB5 are back together after sixty years. The Aston Martin DB5 has appeared in a grand total of eight James Bond films since it was first used by 007 in 1965 – in Thunderball, where it became Q Branch’s favorite vehicle for exotic automotive upgrades. Thunderball was also...

The watch pays homage to the famed physicist, and one of his most famous formulas. Doing a watch that pays tribute to the work of Stephen Hawking comes with challenges to put it mildly. Hawking’s work on black holes is famous, and famously difficult to understand, despite the effort he put into clarifying some of...

The perfect diver’s watch doesn’t exi … Generally speaking, dive watches do not attract superlatives; unless one is introduced, which sets a new record for water resistance, there isn’t a whole lot to say, for several reasons. Of all the types of watches, diver’s watches are the ones where there is the least amount of...