Rolex made a surprise appearance at the World Cup Life&Style Argentine midfielder Landro Paredes’ brawl with Spanish defender Eric Garcia in Sunday’s World Cup final showed exactly why fine timepieces are kept off the pitch. In horological terms, all eyes were on the stands, with Spanish tennis world number one Carlos Alcaraz sporting his 2012 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Rainbow. He blagged his way onto the [...]
A brief history of time: Bremont’s new Stephen Hawking watch Life&Style A new watch celebrating the legacy of Stephen Hawking could be a black hole for your bank account but a great leap for your wrist Four years have elapsed since the original MoonSwatch was released, kickstarting a global phenomena that has seen collectors queuing for days outside retailers in a bid to get their hands on [...]
How Swatch and Audemars Piguet pulled off the ultimate high-low watch collab Life&Style Audemars Piguet and Swatch have teamed up to create a plastic pocket watch that riffs on the Royal Oak, turning an untouchable status symbol into something playful, divisive and irresistibly collectible. Sam Kessler asks: ‘What’s going on?’ On 16 May every Swatch Store in London closed for the day as hundreds of people queued outside, [...]
The watch podcast disrupting the ‘pale, male and stale’ image April 17, 2026 Rashawn Smith and Perri Dash are hoping to change your mind about the watch industry, one podcast at a time, says Laura McCreddie-DoakUnless you’re investigating a cold case, finding a following in the world of podcasting can be difficult. But the Wrist Check Pod seemed to enter the world fully formed when it launched in [...]