Essential information for the aquatically inclined. Although a relatively small number of complications dominate the market for complicated watches – with the chronograph way out in front – there are any number of perhaps (ok, definitely) more niche complications and over the history of watchmaking almost any event which takes place in time at all...

The case shape of the Genta Minute Repeater will become the foundation of a new family of watches. Gérald Genta during his lifetime, managed to arouse controversy on a couple of counts, including his introduction of Disney character watches to the Montres et Bijoux show in 1984 (he left the show after refusing a demand...