The watch podcast disrupting the ‘pale, male and stale’ image Life&Style 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 [...]
In the watch world, exposed movements usurp the vintage revival Life&Style A celebration of the watch brands ditching the vintage revival schtick and going mad with movements instead, by Laura McCreddie-Doak BREGUET EXPÉRIMENTALE Describing this incredibly complex watch in a mere 150 words is almost impossible, so, we’ll just stick to its foremost innovation: the magnetic escapement. In a regular mechanical watch, the mainspring provides the [...]
Forget retail stores – watch collectors now hang at the clubhouse Life&Style Just past De Beers on London’s Old Bond Street lies an anonymous-looking door. Look through to the lobby beyond it and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was an office block where boring admin-y things happen. In fact, if you take the lift up, the doors open to reveal a calm, cream space. To your [...]
Gen Z don’t care about your smartwatches – here’s why September 20, 2025 From City AM The Magazine‘s Autumn edition, Gen Z are the first digital native generation but they’re turning to analogue timepieces over smartwatches It’s ironic that the generation that grew up with a smartphone in their hand is ditching the smartwatch in favour of an analogue alternative. Last year Watchfinder, the Richemont-owned pre-owned retailer, commissioned [...]
Christopher Ward boss Mike France on the British watch boom August 1, 2025 “There I was on stage after having won the GPHG [Grand Prix d’Horolger de Geneve] for Bel Canto last year and Max Busser comes up to me,” recounts Mike France, chief exec and co-founder of Christopher Ward. “I love Max, love what he does, and not only does he congratulate me on the Bel Canto, [...]
Where to buy the latest limited edition Snoopy watch July 21, 2025 City AM brings you all the latest news from the world of watches and horology, from the Tudor making a splash in blue to Rolex helping to save the penguins, plus where to snag the latest must have Snoopy watch. Royal blue: Why Tudor is making a big splash Tudor has made a splash with [...]
Casual, stylish, waterproof: What makes the perfect holiday watch June 26, 2025 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 June 26, 2025 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 December 9, 2024 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 [...]
