Master Collection, HydroConquest and a quartz Conquest. Longines occupies an awkward and rather useful place. It sits inside Swatch Group above Tissot and below Omega, which means it inherits industrial capability from both directions without carrying either price. The brand is also genuinely old, founded in 1832 in Saint-Imier, and it has the archive to […]
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Black Bay GMT, GMT 58 and Ranger. Tudor is usually introduced as the cheaper Rolex, which is both true and unhelpful. The two companies sit under the same owner, the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, and share standards, suppliers and a quality department. What they do not share is a movement. Since 2015 Tudor has built its
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Gold-tone and rose gold-tone bracelet models beside a steel multifunction. Guess gets dismissed faster than almost any watch brand, usually by people who have never checked what is on the spec sheet. Look it up and something odd appears. The cheapest brand in the fashion tier carries the best water resistance in it, by a
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Classic II, Voyager and Chrono II, seen from the side. MVMT arrived in 2013 with an argument rather than a watch. Traditional brands, it said, load retail markup onto a simple product, and buying direct removes that layer. The argument was sound and the watches sold. What changed is the part of the story nobody
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Classic Sheffield, Petite Durham and Iconic Link. Daniel Wellington is the rarest thing in this category: a fashion watch brand with no watch company behind it. There is no Fossil, no Timex, no Movado in the background. It was founded in Sweden in 2011 by Filip Tysander, and it grew by putting thin white-dialled watches
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If the stem came out with it, the watch is open. Act today. A crown that pulls all the way out with the stem attached is alarming, and the correct response is more urgent than most people assume. The case is now open. There is a hole straight into the movement where the stem used
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Gravity pulls on the balance differently depending on how the watch lies. If your watch keeps good time on your wrist and drifts overnight on the nightstand, nothing is wrong with it. You have noticed positional variance, which every mechanical watch has. Gravity pulls on the balance wheel differently depending on how the watch is
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Mega Chief in black and gold, and the Framed solar model in red. Diesel does not sell a watch so much as sell a size. The signature Mega Chief measures 51 mm across, which is larger than most dive watches and roughly the diameter of a drinks coaster. That is a deliberate choice rather than
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Copper reacting with sweat. Harmless, alarming, and easy to stop. A green mark under a watch looks like a reaction to something toxic and is neither toxic nor a reaction in the medical sense. It is copper. Copper in the case or bracelet reacts with the salts and acids in sweat, forms copper salts, and
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The rotor spins on a bearing. On some movements you can hear it. Shake an automatic watch gently near your ear and most of them make a noise. New owners find this alarming and it is nearly always the watch working correctly. The rotor is a weighted semicircle that spins freely on a bearing, and
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