As with many brands, Rolex has its own distinct nomenclature for near every material they produce and use in the manufacture of their watches. Where this practice originates from would require deeper digging, but from a marketing standpoint the practice makes sense. When a brand modifies an alloy or other material to suit their specific...

Turn to a watch enthusiast one day, hopefully catching them off guard, and ask them to name a complication. I’d put money on the fact that 9 times out of 10 the answer you’ll get is “chronograph”. It’s a beloved complication among the majority, and quite frankly one of the few remaining complications with practical...

Looking beyond the sports watch as a general term, I find it interesting to see how many watches were created with a specific sporting activity in mind. On one hand it makes sense, as it is one of those last bastions of “over-engineering with a purpose”. The level of stress, vibration, impact, and other testing...

Starting from a need for accurate timing of events, the relationship between watches and sport has a significant history, and continues to evolve to this very day. As the years have gone on a number of interesting and collectible watches with sporting connections have surfaced, especially considering certain complications (in particular the split-seconds chronograph) are...

Over the years there have been numerous watches that were engineered with a specific challenge or technical feat in mind. Among others, the desire to explore the uncharted depths of the sea gave rise to one of the most popular watch categories on earth: the beloved dive watch, which we recently discussed in another recent...