Vintage Stories
Rolex Sea-Dweller: Forty Watches for an Experim...
In the spring of 1967 Rolex built around forty watches for a United States Navy programme that fell apart within days of starting, after one of its divers died six...
Rolex Sea-Dweller: Forty Watches for an Experim...
In the spring of 1967 Rolex built around forty watches for a United States Navy programme that fell apart within days of starting, after one of its divers died six...
Rolex Serial Numbers: The Complete Lookup Chart...
Remove the bracelet from a Rolex made before 2005 and a string of small characters appears between the lugs at the 6 o'clock side of the case, stamped there in...
Rolex Serial Numbers: The Complete Lookup Chart...
Remove the bracelet from a Rolex made before 2005 and a string of small characters appears between the lugs at the 6 o'clock side of the case, stamped there in...
How to Read a Timegrapher Result: Rate, Amplitu...
The tick of a mechanical watch is not one sound. It is a burst of three tiny metallic impacts, spaced milliseconds apart, produced as the impulse jewel, the pallet fork...
How to Read a Timegrapher Result: Rate, Amplitu...
The tick of a mechanical watch is not one sound. It is a burst of three tiny metallic impacts, spaced milliseconds apart, produced as the impulse jewel, the pallet fork...
Flipped, Forgotten, Reborn: The Story of the Ja...
The patent that René-Alfred Chauvot lodged with the French Ministry of Trade and Industry on 4 March 1931 describes, in flat administrative language, a watch capable of sliding in its...
Flipped, Forgotten, Reborn: The Story of the Ja...
The patent that René-Alfred Chauvot lodged with the French Ministry of Trade and Industry on 4 March 1931 describes, in flat administrative language, a watch capable of sliding in its...
A New Name on the Army’s Watch: The 1976 CWC W10
In 1976 the small black field watch issued to British soldiers carried a new name on its dial for the first time. Not Smiths, which had supplied it at the...
A New Name on the Army’s Watch: The 1976 CWC W10
In 1976 the small black field watch issued to British soldiers carried a new name on its dial for the first time. Not Smiths, which had supplied it at the...
Patek Philippe Annual Calendar 5035R-001: The W...
Every annual calendar wristwatch in existence, whether it comes from Geneva, Glashutte or Le Brassus, descends from a single 37mm design that Patek Philippe unveiled at the Basel fair in...
Patek Philippe Annual Calendar 5035R-001: The W...
Every annual calendar wristwatch in existence, whether it comes from Geneva, Glashutte or Le Brassus, descends from a single 37mm design that Patek Philippe unveiled at the Basel fair in...