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By: Laura McCreddie

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  • Casual, stylish, waterproof: What makes the perfect holiday watch

    The Magazine

    There are plenty of articles floating around the internet in praise of the “one and done”; the perfect watch that will see you right for the rest of your life, give or take a service or two. This isn’t that column. I’m definitely in the “watch wardrobe” camp and take great delight in switching timepieces [...]

  • All you need to know about GMT watches – and why Patek is king

    The Magazine

    On the website greenwichmeantime.com there is a page dedicated to time apps. Here you can create a list of different cities at the touch of a button, see the time in Chizhou, Sidoarjo or Scaggsville, USA concurrently and compared to your home time. You can check whether meetings in different time zones have been properly [...]

  • What watch did Elvis wear? Jay-Z? Jimi Hendrix? Find out here

    Life&Style

    Back in 2014, former AC/DC manager Michael Browning published a book called Dog Eat Dog, detailing the five years he spent from 1974 taking the band from raw, young outsiders to stadium fillers. In those early days, he had two pieces of advice – don’t wear a watch and never take public transport. In an interview [...]

  • Japan is taking on the Swiss with a little help from Studio Ghibli

    December 9, 2024

    Next year the sell-out stage adaptation of Hayao Mizyaki’s tale of two girls, a catbus and a forest spirit, My Neighbour Totoro, will transfer to the West End. This year Spirited Away, another Studio Ghibli classic about a girl, a bathhouse for gods, and a boy who turns into a dragon, was staged at the [...]

  • Subdial: How the pre-owned seller is changing the watch game

    December 9, 2024

    Subdial, the pre-owned, data-driven watch retail platform, has a new investor in the form of former Watchfinder CEO Stuart Hennell. Hennell, who left Watchfinder, following its sale to Richemont, in 2018 has purchased a substantial minority interest in the business. Hennell is uniquely placed to advise Subdial. Unlike the likes of Chrono24, which is essentially [...]

  • How the Rolex Laureate is helping to end fast fashion

    June 11, 2024

    We delve into the efforts of Rolex to protect the planet through its Awards for Enterprise scheme and its Perpetual Planet initiative.

  • Lunar ticks: How the moonphase rose once again

    June 10, 2024

    One of the oldest complications around, the moonphase – a function that tracks the movement of the celestial bodies – is having a resurgence.

  • For quiet luxury, on your wrist, look to Patek Philippe, Rolex et al

    April 20, 2024

    Want to bring a touch of quiet luxury to your watch purchases? Think outside the box, says Laura McCreddie-Doak

  • After a decade of vintage reissues watch brands are taking risks

    April 19, 2024

    Everyone’s been taking a trip down memory lane with vintage reissues – until the last couple of years, that is

  • How Oris became the coolest watch brand in Switzerland

    December 13, 2023

    In the last couple of years, it has increased its threat from double to triple as Oris has started experimenting with technologies never seen before in watchmaking

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