Why there are fewer titanium watches than you might think. Titanium might be the closest we are ever going to get to a perfect material for watch cases. It’s 40% lighter than steel but twice as strong by weight; it is immune to the environmental chemicals, like chlorides and acids, which can cause pitting to...

A watch from 2019 with a record-setting 65 day power reserve, is now part of the regular collection. The perpetual calendar solves one problem but potentially raises others. The solved problem is the calendar, in which there are months with either 31 or 30 days, and also the month of February, which has 28 days...

The Moonwatch was never meant to go into space, but it did. Here’s how Omega’s kept it up to date – and why, for a Mars mission, a mechanical Speedy might be the way to go. The Omega Speedmaster Professional was launched in 1957 and although today, it’s known around the world as the Moonwatch,...

An openworked version of Vacheron’s historically significant caliber 2755 opens up an intricate microcosm of horology. Vacheron Constantin is indisputably the leading maker of highly complicated timepieces in the modern horological landscape – it has set one record after another for complications, including the launch last year of the Solaria Grand Complication, whose intricacies, including...

With a new 2.4mm caliber and 80 hours of power reserve, Vacheron Constantin Overseas Ultra-Thin shows how refinement, not reinvention, drives progress. It was about two years ago, talking with Jack Forster, when I found myself asking some obscure question about 18th century movement mechanics. Somewhere along that ever-expanding conversation, I mentioned my love of...

Three new integrated bracelet models, and the new HPG High Precision Guarantee. Jaeger-LeCoultre has just announced a new collection of watches in the Master Control Collection. The Master Control Chronomètre timepieces consist of three new models: the Master Control Chronomètre Date Power Reserve; the Master Control Chronomètre Perpetual Calendar; and the Master Control Chronomètre Date....