Today
Your old Mickey Mouse watch is all grown up (again)
How to explain the plethora of tourbillon and other upscale models brands are relying on to win over wallets? Those time-honoured factors, prowess and profit.
- Bani McSpedden
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
The new Apple Watch is really annoying - and that’s a good thing
We often find ourselves at the mercy of too many screens - but Apple’s new Series 7 Watch could be the answer to this problem.
- John Davidson
This Month
- Opinion
- Review
We put Samsung and Apple’s smartwatches head to head
Both watches will help (or hinder) you getting through your day in pretty much the same way, but only one is worth dying for.
- John Davidson
August
The fun fashion watch of the ’80s and ’90s is all grown up
Today, there’s a new type of watch carrying the fashion label, a more serious effort designed to stack up as a timepiece while matching your wardrobe and mood.
- Bani McSpedden
July
Watch this space: 16 timepieces coming your way this year
You mightn’t be travelling yet, but with watches like this arriving, there’s no reason to deny your wrist a holiday.
- Bani McSpedden
New watch range goes for gold with dials that celebrate Japan
With accuracy virtually a given and timepieces now cased in everything from platinum to petrified wood, attention has finally moved to the dial.
- Bani McSpedden
The brilliant reasons a watch can’t be replaced by your phone
High-end and jewellery timepieces can bring something no mobile has achieved, a fact seemingly not lost amid increased personal wealth and spending power.
- Bani McSpedden
Why Rolex’s Australian head decided to run a watch shop instead
After a decade at the helm of the famed watchmaker’s antipodean arm, Patrick Boutellier did the unthinkable by leaving the dream job to run a store.
- Bani McSpedden
Fashion brands seize the moment with watches that break the mould
If ever there was any doubt such companies are sparkling with horological creativity, this year is bringing further proof with high-jewellery timepieces.
- Bani McSpedden
Watches for motoring buffs to covet, sport and flaunt
The links between the fast-paced worlds of automobiles and horology have never been stronger, as shown by these offerings from IWC, Bovet 1822 and Chopard.
- Bani McSpedden
This luxury watch tells the time with a skull and a snake
Look, no hands: The Carpe Diem Tambour timepiece is a glittering, spooky surprise from prestigious fashion house Louis Vuitton.
- Bani McSpedden
Getting a Pink Panther on your wrist is now surprisingly affordable
A relatively inexpensive Chronoswiss (as well as Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new multifaceted $2 million Reverso) grab the spotlight as horology recovers from COVID-19.
- Bani McSpedden
June
The hottest colour in watches this year is ...
Right now, it seems a brand without a green-dialled watch is a brand not worth accommodating on your wrist.
- Bani McSpedden
May
Why this watch brand thinks 100 years ahead
Patek Philippe’s outspoken CEO, Thierry Stern, knows what he’s releasing for the next 15 years – and they’re watches made to last more than a century.
- Bani McSpedden
April
The four-faced watch that will set you back $2m
A Jaeger-LeCoultre timepiece with four dials was one of the biggest surprises as brands went all out to grab attention at the Watches and Wonders fair in Geneva.
- Bani McSpedden
Dior dares to reshape women’s watch design
Brands from the finicky world of fashion are jumping off the catwalk and onto the wrist as more women rediscover watches.
- Bani McSpedden
Rich women: luxury brands have multimillion-dollar watches for you
Feminine timepieces predominantly used to be smaller versions of masculine ones. But things have changed and now every brand seems to want in on the party.
- Bani McSpedden
March
Famous watch faces ready for a fair to remember
The world of watches awaits a fresh event and new decorative takes on reading the hour, writes Bani McSpedden for our April issue.
- Bani McSpedden
Can a modern wristwatch become an icon?
It’s the old faithfuls like the IWC Portugeiser and the Omega Speedmaster that get elevated to myth status, but things are changing in the world of horology.
- Bani McSpedden
February
How does a watch become a wearable race car? It’s complicated ...
Expensive, exclusive, exquisitely engineered and out there – Richard Mille’s RM 65-01 shows what advanced tech looks like for the wrist in the 21st century.
- Bani McSpedden
