Spellbound

LED watches, popular in the Seventies, had no moving parts and were eventually replaced by LCD displays due to energy efficiency. Girard Perregaux launched the Casquette watch in 1976, with three vers

I must say I am quite excited to see some very compelling watches being released at BASELWORLD this year, and at attractive price points. In the sub-$5,000 category, firstly the new Heritage Ranger fr

One must not underestimate the importance of the 1970's. There is no need to go into detail as to the challenges to the mechanical watch making industries that were brought on by the Quartz revolution

Pilot Montre d'Aéronef Type 20 2012 was a year that Zenith surprised many of us with the introduction of the Zenith Pilot Montre d'Aéronef Type 20, a behemoth of a piece with the legendary caliber 501

A few months ago I told you about an exciting new project that was raising funds through Kickstarter. The project was a watch for the visually impaired, inspired and named after Lt. Brad Snyder, a her

Countries have been invaded, wars fought, and men killed over it. And way back in history, and long before the physical properties of gold were known to man, civilizations used gold for coinage and je

It was only recently, when I received my Zenith Mark V Cockpit watch from a dealer in Portugal, that I started to delve into the history of this watch. It is truly remarkable to know that in 1916 and

Have you ever loved a watch so much you had to buy another? So I was actually recently in Hong Kong on a visa run and I thought it a good opportunity to purchase a Zenith Doublematic. Although I ponde