Browsing: Buyer’s Guide

buffy acacia I wrote a list like this Top 5 bad looking watches and 5 Affordable Watches for GothsI like to think of myself as Time+Tide’s…

buffy acacia The use of precious stones as material for watch dials is a relatively new concept in watchmaking; It goes back to Piaget’s first series…

Borna Bosniak The history of ceramic in watches spans more than 60 years and has been used in one form or another since 1962, when the…

buffy acacia No matter where your watch preferences lie, you can almost guarantee that most watches are round. Given the circular nature of our orbit around…

Borna Bosniak Everywhere you look these days, brands are happy to tell you how “green” their products are. I’m hoping this will help alleviate some of…

jamie weiss Maybe it’s because my dad works in the IT industry and was passionate about things like this, but I was always told growing up…

tom austin A staple of Richard Mille and Audemars Piguet products, skeleton dials are one of the most coveted manufacturing techniques in watchmaking today. With its…

zach blas Although platinum is not a more expensive raw material than gold, platinum watches are positioned as the most expensive pieces by all watch brands.…

Russell Sheldrake There seem to be two factions in the watch industry right now. While some people are happy to use the terms bicompax and tricompax…

buffy acacia For owners of hand-wound mechanical watches, winding the watch has become part of everyday life. It’s a little more fiddly for an automatic car,…