4 Things Watch Companies do that I can’t Wrap my Head around!
Yes, it’s one of those articles featuring points a watch enthusiast can’t wrap his head around. Full disclaimer, all these points are debatable and only...
Yes, it’s one of those articles featuring points a watch enthusiast can’t wrap his head around. Full disclaimer, all these points are debatable and only...
The passion for watchmaking is, sometimes, made of extremes as infinite are the ways to express creativity within this form of art. As it happens,...
The Genesis A true hidden watchmaking gem, founded in 2014 by young architect Miguel Morales Ribas, Ophion emerged from a passion for horology and a desire to...
I remember seeing Jacob & Co in the hip-hop scene in my early 20s. I had a colleague at the time who went to New...
For the Chinese, the start of the year is always fun because we kind of get two New Years, with the second being Chinese or...
Welcome to the Scottish Watches Podcast Episode 530! Fight! It’s The Last Watch Show of 2023 – So Don’t Miss itScottish Watches Podcast #427 :...
This year has been a tremendous year for watch releases. From the bigger brands, we have seen Rolex release colorful fun dials (something we...
Despite a downward trend in the secondary market compared to the pandemic, the watch market is still in tip top shape. There has never been...
It’s the time of the year again, GPHG is just around the corner (9 November 2023), where brands compete in multiple categories in the Oscars...
It’s the time of the year again, GPHG is just around the corner (9 November 2023), where brands compete in multiple categories in the Oscars...
It’s the time of the year again, GPHG is just around the corner (9 November 2023), where brands compete in multiple categories in the Oscars...
THE 2nd INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TIME Waterford, Ireland, Sept 2023. The deeply rooted passion for independent watchmaking and the love for his land, has...
Watches have been trending smaller in recent years. From The IWC big pilot to the Rolex Explorer, our smaller wrists now have a vast pool...
Editor’s note: Due to Scottish Watches’ participation in the RedBar Global Meetup, we were permitted by Accutron and RedBar to run this piece a few...
Less is more, there I’ve said it. Nothing becomes truer than that when we talk about the Tissot PRX. Tissot is a brand that has...
When it comes to Rolex, nothing is more legendary than the Daytona nowadays. It is hard to imagine that in the past not many cared...
So the time has come again for Only Watch, with takes place every other year. It is a brilliant occasion for watch brands to come...
Anyone who knows me, they are very aware that I love GMTs or multiple time zone watches, I am not entirely sure why but I think...
Rolex is synonymous with evolution over revolution with each new release always bringing the model line that much closer to perfection. It has rarely been...
I have never signed up for anything so quickly in my life! Since April I’ve been in real anticipation of this week because Roger Smith’s...
Editor’s Note: A reader’s tongue-in-cheek description of the Rolex buying experience. To be taken entirely in jest. So you have to have a Rolex, Because...
Some watches are considered unicorns, to me the Rolex Explorer 1655 is one of those watches, it doesn’t matter if Steve McQueen wore one or not,...
As with every year’s Watches & Wonders, brands like Rolex, Tudor and Patek Philippe tend to get all the attention especially in the first couple...
Every year, the runway to Watches and Wonders is littered with speculation over what all the watch brands attending might bring. Most are usually way...
Watches and Wonders 2023 has come and gone and we have had a whole slew of new releases from brands big and small. They ranged...
The Dawn of Man At discrete points throughout what I will lazily label as Ancient Times, Egyptians built Pyramids, Druids may or may not have...
Here’s Rikki’s entire W & W 2023 Photo Dump! Enjoy! 🙂 RikkiGot into the horological hobby only a few short years ago; but got, as...
As far back as humans have been around they have wanted to explore and one of the biggest areas on earth to explore is the...
Watch forums and comments sections can be both informative and insightful. Yet sometimes I find that they can turn out to be infuriating and this...
The New Year has barely passed, but it’s the New Year again, at least for the Chinese. With that comes the hustle and bustle of...
I wonder how many brands are discovered every day by someone casually scrolling through Instagram. Instagram is a fairly easy-to-use platform for media, like us,...
Editor Foreword: Over the past few years, gold, yellow gold, in particular, has been making a comeback. So too has two-tone, especially since the dated...
This is it, we are at the end of 2022, with just one more day to go. This year has truly been amazing in terms...
2022 has been a whirlwind year with a multitude of great watches released and certainly multiple in and outs from the collection. The ultimate sign...
This weekend Phillips gave people the chance to acquire unique pieces and special watches in their New York Auction: Seven in collaboration with Time For...
When Phillips first announced back in August that it had George’s Daniel’s Spring Case Tourbillon (along with two others) up for auction in November, it...
If you’ve been visiting the Scottish Watches website over the last few months, you’ll have seen a series of articles about the entries to GPHG...
Men’s Complication – by Mark For watches to be eligible for the “Men’s Complication” category at GPHG in 2022 they must be “men’s watches that...
The Category: Jewellery Ah, a category where the focus is not on the time-telling portion of the watch, makes perfect sense don’t you think? On...
Some of the GPHG categories feature watches that are so finely made, crafted by hand, and usually so expensive that few of us will ever...
The Category One of the absolute joys of the watch world is the artistic engineering of a complication. While a watch on a basic level...
The Category Dive watches. We all love them, even though only very few of us actually dive. We love their ruggedness, their water resistance, and...
The Category Ahhh the Tourbillion category, endless hours can be spent discussing the merits of a Tourbillion in a wristwatch. There are two types of...
The Category: Mechanical Clock The Mechanical Clock is a category that is a bit of an outlier in the GPHG awards, much like the jewelry...
Having a ladies’ category within a watch award is a huge step for females kind. While the rest of the industry tends to lean more...
What is it about the calendar and astronomical complications that attract you the most? Their mechanical complexity? The artistic exhibition of information? It is most...
The Category: Iconic The Iconic category to me has always been a far more clear-cut category than most of the others since a significant portion...
I imagine that everyone who attended the 8th Horology Forum hosted by the Seddiqi family at the Meatpacking District in Chelsea, NYC was greatly impressed by...
The Category: Mechanical Exception The term mechanical exception is rather vague and intentionally so since the rules governing this category have the following highly restrictive...
The Category: Artistic Craft Beyond being tools, watches have evolved to become the equivalent of canvases for watchmakers and those who specialize in finishing. To...
The Foundation du Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève or translated into English as the Foundation for the Grand Horological Prize of Geneva (GPHG) was founded...
One of the most precise watches you can possibly think of is already in your pocket. Yes – your iPhone/iOS device (Android/Google probably has something similar)...
The Foundation du Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève or translated into English as the Foundation for the Grand Horological Prize of Geneva (GPHG) was founded...
Follow me in the rabbit hole that is HAQ (short for High Accuracy Quartz). The definition of “Accuracy” is: accuracy /ˈakjʊrəsi/ noun noun: accuracy the...
Editor’s Note: This article was meant to be a three-part series by regular contributor @koolpep aka (Ralf) but life got in the way after the...
I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been hating on Rolex – especially the way many ADs have allocated watches – for at least 3 years now....
The modern Seamaster 300M era began in 1993. It featured a helium escape valve and skeleton hands. In the intervening 29 years there have been...
The watch world was taken by storm on 21 March 2022, when images of a collaboration between Omega and Swatch were leaked to an unsuspecting...
In 2021, Tudor set about experimenting with a wide range of materials including gold, silver, bronze, ceramic and titanium. Well, it seems that the brand...
It’s been awhile since the last round-up cause of COVID issues and other things but we are finally back this week with Omega dropping what...
By: Barbara Palumbo Back in 2019 when I attended my first ever stateside January Oris Preview (or, as we call it, the “Oris Ski Trip”)...
Twenty Twenty-one was a surprisingly good year for watch releases. From microbrands, independents, and mainstream brands alike. Here are some of the Scottish Watches team...
As the year comes to a close, instead of just looking at the past week, it felt apt that we take a look at the...
Hi guys! Guess who’s back! Also…HOW IS IT ALREADY DECEMBER?!?!? This year has gone so quickly and we’re heading into the festive period. There are...
This week has been the week of Only Watch & GPHG. Both featured a whole host of amazing watches at the same time which would...
Hello and welcome to another weeks’ #scottishwatches top 5! It’s less of a competition and more about how I’m feeling at the time (I bet...
Welcome back for week 38 of the finest watch photography the internet has to offer. I’ll continue Lucy’s new tradition of a weather report: It’s...
Well, hello again! Another week and another highlight of some of my favourite #scottishwatches posts. You guys are nothing if not consistent – and your...
HELLO ALL! Welcome to this weeks’ #scottishwatches roundup! I know I talk a lot about the weather (see my last article) but I really do...
Week 32 is upon us. Over half of the year is gone and the competition is really heating up around here in the world of...
Greetings and welcome back to the weekly choices for the best watch photos in the whole wide world. Perhaps you noticed a different voice here...
Here we go again! Another week and another avalanche of fantastic shots from the watchfam. With the weather (here in the UK at least) giving...
I’m officially over silicone watch straps. Don’t get me wrong, they have their good points. They’re cheap, they’re soft, lightweight, come in a rainbow of...
Greetings and welcome back to the weekly choices for the best watch photos in the whole wide world. It’s going to be a bit shorter...
Welcome, welcome, welcome back boys and girls to the weekly column where we painstakingly sift through the hundreds of photos you submit (knowingly or not)...
Happy Fourth of July weekend to any of you who take part in such things. Otherwise, happy Week 26, of #scottishwatches photos, which is obviously...
Another week, another round-up of some of the #scottishwatches posts! As always, there is so much variety – from colourful dials, to watches and whisky...
Welcome back for another roundup of last week’s watch photography greatest hits. I’m glad to see that you were all able to pull yourself away...
Another week and another batch of excellent photos to painstakingly parse through for your viewing pleasure. So you can either go back to your cushy...
With the launch of the calibre 400 last year we originally saw the movement housed in only the 43.5mm Aquis case but since Watches and...
Happy June and happy week 22 to all you fine guys and gals out there in Scottish Watches land. Half the year down and half...
It’s hard to believe we are already 21 weeks into 2021, but here we are. It feels like a whole different world than week 21...
As the world slowly shows signs of maybe possibly getting a little bit back to normal, it’s good to see that it hasn’t slowed you...
If watch collectors are nothing else they’re snobs, things just need to be right. The right bezel, right dial and the right movement. It’s what...
It’s been more than a month since watches and brands are gradually picking up steam in their watch releases once again. This week, we have...
It’s time again for our weekly compendium of stellar watch photography, tagged with #scottishwatches, by you, the loyal hoard of readers/listeners. As always, the page...
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It seems like there are more and more photos each week, and they just keep getting better and better! I am going to have to...
It’s becoming clear that this job of choosing the best photos each week is going to get harder and harder as the weather gets warmer....
A wise man once said, “The road to horological enlightenment is paved with MVMTs”. Or maybe it was Invictas, or Daniel Wellingtons. More of a...
As it tends to do, life interfered and I missed a week of showcasing your best photos tagged #scottishwatches. I deeply apologize from the bottom...
It’s been a very busy and quite eventful Watches and Wonders week. From the big hits like JLC’s Quadriptyque, to sleeper favorites like the Tudor...
If you had told me that between Rolex and Tudor, Tudor would release the more extravagant headliner watch, I would not have believed you,...
I will always be amazed and the Crown’s ability to draw me back in, even after thinking time and again that there isn’t anything from...
The Weird World of Watches for Young People by Ted Hunter Why are watches not appealing to young people? They still need to know the...
There is a sense of the calm before a storm this week, with Watches & Wonders starting on 7 April 2021 where many of the...
It’s time again for everyone’s favorite part of the week, when we round up all the great photos that you guys have tagged #scottishwatches. After...
Scotland, Home of the Brave heart, and land of the Free Healthcare We love Scotland, you love Scotland, you listen to mostly Scottish voices drone on about...
What does Ombré mean? According to Wikipedia it is a French word meaning shaded. For Christopher Ward it is a dial treatment where the dial...
Another week, another series of releases from various brands. While my sentiment about brands packing their releases in the same week still stands, we...