Until Saturday, November 9, 2019, the most expensive watch ever sold was the Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication, which was sold at auction on November 11, 2014. The price at the time was about $23.5 million, but that record has… Continue Reading
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going” feels like an appropriate intro to this article about Casio’s particularly rugged G-Shock series. G-Shock is short for Gravitational Shock and the name refers to the formidable ability of the series… Continue Reading
If you have experienced the 1980s as a youngster, then you may remember that this was the decade when The Digital Age really struck through and reached the general public. The first Space Shuttle was launched, the personal computer gradually… Continue Reading
In horology ‘Complication‘ is a term used about the features in a mechanical timepiece that is additional to displaying hours, minutes and seconds. Some believe that these features must be directly related to time measurement in order to qualify as… Continue Reading
There is nothing particularly extravagant about Grand Seiko Spring Drive SBGA211, better known to fans as the ‘Snowflake’. The design is kept quite tight and traditional, but it is within these limits that Grand Seiko ‘Snowflake’ unfolds and goes all… Continue Reading
What is the definition of a luxury watch? The term ‘luxury watch’ is sometimes used in forums and articles discussing timepieces, but is there a more precise definition of a luxury watch and if so, what does it sound like?… Continue Reading
