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Patek Philippe
Patek Philippe are known for being one of the oldest watchmakers, but also one of the last family-owned. At last year’s Basel watch fair, Patek focused heavily on their 175th anniversary, this year – they begin their work towards their 200th year. They launched three new timepieces at the show and we thought you needed to see them…
The Officer’s watch had its origins during the First World War, when pocket watches with hinged backs were reconfigured into something you could pop on your wrist. Slightly handier for combat. Patek Philippe’s latest incarnation, the Calatrava 5153, inspired by these First World War era timepieces, has the distinctive protective cover over the case back. And…
Because of the significance it held in the original 2005 novel, the Drive filmmakers took a long time deliberating over the watch Ryan Gosling’s character should own. A gift given to him by his father, it was one of his few possessions, and for a leading man that’s virtually mute, it’s the films visual and stylistic…
As a serious and roughly speaking heterosexual member of the male race, I’m more than happy to buy jewellery for my wives and mistresses but, for some reason, I have never been tempted by jewellery for myself, which explains why my hands are ring-free zones and my ear lobes, navel and tongue are all un-pierced.…
Once upon a time, long before the wristwatch was invented, the best clocks in the world came from England. The trouble was that they were rather big. This did not matter if their function was to act as a ships chronometer but it did get slightly awkward if, like all fashionable men, you tried to…