Category Archives: Articles

The History of Audemars Piguet Wristwatches – The Early Days Part I

It’s 2023 and the year of the Royal Oak is over. We can finally start [...]

The History of Audemars Piguet Wristwatches – The Early Days Part II

It’s 2023 and this is the second part of our story on vintage AP. As [...]

Omega Chronostop Reference Guide – The Monopusher Chronograph

One of the funkiest Omega creations of the space age definitely must have been the [...]

Tool or Dress Watch? – Vacheron Constantin 6782 “Turnograph”

How to best describe this piece? Think classic VC dress watch of the 1960s and [...]

A Watch Guide to Numerals – Types, Layouts & Evolutions

Numerals and their layout are nowadays not really an important factor in watch design, so [...]

A Brief History of Date Windows

Date windows are these little apertures on a watch’s dial (mostly) located at 3o’clock. If [...]

A Matter of Taste – Popularity of Different Materials

You can’t argue taste… but interestingly taste is strongly influenced by your cultural upbringing. I [...]

Reference Guide Patek Philippe – Sub-Second Time-Only Watches

I’ll try to lay the foundation for a community driven database for the rare, the [...]

Rare Patek Philippe Watches – The “Comet” Collection

The world of vintage watches is full of wonders. In 1942, when the entire world [...]

Vintage Patek Philippe Guide: Shaped Watches

This is already the second part of this Patek Philippe part of my database. And this [...]