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Explore your horological obsession at Bucherer Masterworks Life&Style Should haute horology be on your Christmas wish list this year, consider stopping by the breathtaking Masterworks showcase at the Bucherer store at Royal Opera House. Here you will find a watch-lover’s paradise – part clubhouse, part museum – where you’re encouraged to engage with watchmakers and watchmaking alike. “Whether you are a seasoned connoisseur [...]
Dive time: How the diving watch plumbed new depths The Magazine Almost a century ago, one of Switzerland’s historic maisons created the enduring formula for the water-resistant diving watch. With its screwed-down caseback, screwdown winding crown and rubber gaskets, the sub-aquatic world has been Rolex’s ‘Oyster’ ever since. As our timeline below shows, diving-watch casemaking has been a crucible for engineering innovation since 1926. Admittedly some [...]
Who watches the Watches? Opinion As a newly minted Picture Editor and thus part of the management team of a then-popular left-wing national newspaper, I sat in on a discussion about why the poor ate so badly. Having only recently landed the job and as keen as mustard – and oh so naive – my feet were still planted firmly [...]