Journal

Buying guides and plain explanations, written to be useful before a purchase.

Reading a watch dial

Watch descriptions carry a lot of shorthand. Subdial, tachymeter, applied index, day-date — all of it assumes you already know. This is a...

Most watches that stop looking good do not break. They get grubby, the strap dries out, and nobody notices until it is too far gone to fi...

Automatic or quartz is the first real fork in choosing a watch, and it is usually presented as a matter of taste when it is really a matt...

Case size is the single number that decides whether a watch looks right on you, and it is the one thing you cannot judge from a photograp...